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‘Never right to make comparisons’? Holocaust memory, climate crisis, and the debate over appropriate discourse

Holocaust Studies
This article considers the relationship between the Holocaust and the increased threat of mass violence due to climate change. Extreme weather events, resource deprivation, and population movements are likely to cause societal stresses which make ...
David C. Tollerton
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Menorah Review (No. 44, Fall, 1998) [PDF]

, 1998
When Bad Things Happen to Anyone: Venturing East of Uz -- The Meandering Muse -- A New Jewry: Promise or Threat?

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'Black Phones': postmodern poetics in the Holocaust poetry of Sylvia Plath [PDF]

, 2008
This essay offers a fresh perspective on the Holocaust verse of the American poet Sylvia Plath, taking issue with the accusation that in her poetry she uses the Holocaust as a metaphor to figure her own personal pain.
Boswell, MJ
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‘It is not a topic that should be assessed by a test’: Understanding teachers' assessment literacy in the teaching of ‘difficult histories’ such as the Holocaust

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores how history teachers in secondary education in England (a) see their role as assessors and (b) how they make decisions about assessing a difficult history: learning about the Holocaust. Assessment literacy (AL) is recognised as a potentially valuable aspect of good teaching and central to supporting students' learning ...
Mary Richardson, Rebecca Hale, Tom Haward, Kwaku Adjepong   +3 more
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
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The digital multidirectionality of anniversaries: 7 October 1944/2023, Catch-22 commemoration and the comparative instrumentalization of Holocaust memory on X

Memory, Mind & Media
This article analyses how coinciding anniversaries of the Sonderkommando revolt (7 October 1944) and the 7 October 2023 Hamas terror attacks on Israel shaped digital Holocaust memory.
Eric Boyd, Samuel Merrill
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The Intelligentsia and the Holocaust: Dispersing the Image

Studia Litteraria et Historica, 2018
This paper in the field of cultural memory studies addresses the workings of memory, or more precisely – a politics of memory whereby the image of the intelligentsia and its role in the Holocaust vanishes from the collective consciousness.
Katarzyna Chmielewska
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Recent approaches to Holocaust memory work: Lithuania and the British at the turn of the millennium [PDF]

, 2013
I gave a paper on the British/Lithuanian ITF 'Liaison Project' as part of a panel on 'National and Transnational Narratives of the Holocaust' at the 'Holocaust Memory Re-Visited' conference, Uppsala University, 21-23 March 2013.
Allwork, Larissa
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Muslim minorities as Germany’s past future: Islam critics, Holocaust memory, and immigrant integration

Memory Studies, 2019
A new cohort of Turkish- and Arab-background public intellectuals in Germany locate the root of problems of migrant communities in a resemblance between Islamic culture and Nazi ideology. Islam critics promote the idea that if, like the children of Nazis
Esra Özyürek
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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