Memory and forgetting in the post-holocaust era : the ethics of never again / Alejandro Baer and Natan Sznaider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baer, Alejandro, 1970- author.

Sznaider, Natan, 1954- author.

Series:

Memory studies: global constellations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Argentina--Public opinion.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Spain--Public opinion.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe, Eastern--Public opinion.

Public opinion--Argentina.

Public opinion.

Crimes against humanity.

Genocide.

Collective memory.

Argentina.

Public opinion--Spain.

Spain.

Public opinion--Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Collective memory--Argentina.

Collective memory--Spain.

Collective memory--Europe, Eastern.

Genocide--Case studies.

Crimes against humanity--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

To forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with other narratives of victimization that demand equal treatment. Are there crimes that must be forgotten and others that should be remembered? In this book the authors examine the effects of a globalized Holocaust culture on the ways in which individuals and groups understand the moral and political significance of their respective histories of extreme political violence. Do such transnational memories facilitate or hamper the task of coming to terms with and overcoming divisive pasts? Taking Argentina, Spain and a number of sites in post-communist Europe as test cases, this book illustrates the transformation from a nationally oriented ethics to a trans-national one. The authors look at media, scholarly discourse, NGOs dealing with human rights and memory, museums and memorial sites, and examine how a new generation of memory activists revisits the past to construct a new future. Baer and Sznaider follow these attempts to maneuver between the duties of remembrance and the benefits of forgetting. This, the authors argue, is the "ethics of Never Again." Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Ethics of Never Again: global constellations 1

2 Nunca Más: Argentine Nazis and Judíos del Sur 28

3 Francoism reframed: the disappeared of the Spanish Holocaust 64

4 Eastern Europe: exhuming competing pasts 105

5 Beyond Antigone and Amalek: toward a memory of hope 132.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1472448944

9781472448941

OCLC:

965493079