Lessons and Legacies, Volume XV
Description
A collection of cutting-edge research from the fields of history, literature, and memory, representing the latest advances in Holocaust studies
The contributions to this volume—the fifteenth in the historic Lessons and Legacies series—represent an array of multidisciplinary research topics and approaches in Holocaust studies within three broad categories: history, literature, and memory. These categories overlap and intersect, demonstrating the dynamic character of contemporary Holocaust studies, which views history, narrative representation, and commemoration as mutually informative, while continuing to integrate regional and national historical narratives into a more global approach. This volume reckons with new understandings of the mechanics of genocide, along with the experiences of refugees, the limits of language, and the ever-evolving dimensions of Holocaust memory and representation.
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Persons
Erin McGlothlin is a professor of German and Jewish studies and the vice dean of undergraduate affairs at Washington University in St. Louis.
Avinoam Patt is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and the director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut.
Content
I. Wartime History
Natalie Eppelsheimer, "Some Had a Farm in Africa: Holocaust Survivors as Settler-Colonists in Kenya”
Daniela Gleizer, “Refugees from Nazism and Holocaust Survivors in Mexico: Closed Doors and Contested Memories”
Elysa I. McConnell, “Building the Nation at the Periphery: Fascism, Italianization, and Racial Persecution in Italy’s Eastern Borderlands”
Jason Tingler, “A Vortex of Violence: Chełm at the Crossroads of Genocide and Mass Murder”
Idit Gil, “Ethics and Friendship in KZ Hessental: Josek Giser’s Diary and His Survival Efforts”
II. Literature and Testimony from the Postwar to the Contemporary
Ariane Santerre, “Transgressive Testimonies: French Survivors’ Early Writings on the Holocaust”
Naya Lekht, “Literary Monuments: Commemorating the Holocaust in the Soviet Union”
Jonathan Druker, “Monstrous Births and Mad Scientists: Allegories of Holocaust Trauma in Primo Levi’s Natural Histories”
Joanna Krongold, “‘Too Much Precedent’: Holocaust Allegory in Suzanne Collins’s Underland Chronicles”
III. Museums and Memorials
Anja Ballis, “Tour Guide Meets Tourist: Local and Global Perspectives of Guided Tours at European Concentration Camp Memorial Sites”
Sarah Kleinmann, “The Museum Representation of National Socialist Perpetrators in Germany and Austria”
Laurie A. Stein, “The State of Provenance Research in Museums: Evaluating Global and National Approaches and Responses”
Anna Duensing, “We Should Have Had a Nuremberg after the Civil War”: Understanding Nazism at the Frontlines of the Battle Over Confederate Monuments
Dan Leopard and Noah Shenker, "Pinchas-DiT: Simulation and the Imagined Future of Holocaust Survivor Memory”
Notes on Contributors