History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from March 2001

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from March 2001

The Past in the Present.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 22, 2001... As I assume my responsibility as the new editor of History & Memory, I would like to warmly thank my predecessors, Saul Friedlander, Gulie Ne'eman-Arad and Dan Diner. They have made History & Memory a distinguished journal, a lively site of...

Christian Boltanski's Dernieres Annees.(art exhibition, Paris, France)
March 22, 2001... The History of Violence and the Violence of History(*) In the last decade, the Jewish Holocaust has been invoked in the visual arts with increasing frequency. Ideally suited to a postmodern impulse to test the limits of cultural...

History Begins at Home.(Siegfried Kracauer, Roland Barthes, writings)(Illustration)
March 22, 2001... Photography and Memory in the Writings of Siegfried Kracauer and Roland Barthes(*) For Geoffrey Wigoder, in memoriam There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: they have...

Commemorating Malikiyya.(battle, Israeli-Arab war 1948-1949 involving Lebanon)
March 22, 2001... Political Myth, Multiethnic Identity and the Making of the Lebanese Army(*) PREFACE The convoluted process of state building in Lebanon since its independence in the mid-1940s, and in particular the formation, disintegration and...

Embodiment of the Revolutionary Spirit.(Egypt, history research)
March 22, 2001... The Mustafa Kamil Mausoleum in Cairo(*) In the aftermath of World War II Egyptian public life was tumultuous. Egypt's liberal politics seemed to be going astray, causing concern to the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy. The government's...

Memory and Collective Identity in Occitanie.(Cathars in history, influence on local identity)
March 22, 2001... The Cathars in History and Popular Culture(*) Catharism, or Albigensianism, was a dualist religion which probably originated in the Balkans before appearing in Languedoc, southwestern France, in the first half of the twelfth century.(1) It...