History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from March 1999

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from March 1999

Collective Memory Divided and Reunited.
March 22, 1999... Mothers, Daughters and the Fascist Experience in Germany I know her: when I lay unconscious last night, she climbed into bed with me calling my name she insists we are sisters under the same skin. Michele...

Memory on Trial in Contemporary France.
March 22, 1999... The Case of Maurice Papon The Nazi crimes, it seems to me, explode the limits of the law; and that is precisely what constitutes their monstrosity. Hannah Arendt to Karl Jaspers, 17 August 1946(1) After a trail lasting six months,...

The Preserving Machine.
March 22, 1999... The "New" Museum and Working through Trauma--the Musee Memorial pour la Paix of Caen(*) Museums have a strange way of following in the footsteps of slaughterhouses. Denis Hollier(1) The Musee Memorial pour la paix, which opened...

"Anne Frank is dead, long live Anne Frank".
March 22, 1999... The Six-Day War and the Holocaust in French Public Discourse(*) Any attack on the State of Israel would be as intolerable as the resumption of the crematory ovens and gas chambers of Auschwitz, in front of Notre-Dame....(1) ...

Rescuing the Person from the Symbol.
March 22, 1999... "Peace Now" and the Ironies of Modern Myth(*) INTRODUCTION On 20 February 1983 a hand grenade was hurled into a "Peace Now" demonstration in Jerusalem, killing one and injuring eight. The slain victim was Emil Grunzweig. The Israeli...