History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from March 2003

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from March 2003

Remembering "other" losses: the Temple du Souvenir Indochinois of Nogent-sur-Marne *.
March 22, 2003... On 21 April 1984 a fire gutted and destroyed a singular building in the easternmost part of the Bois de Vincennes, in the suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne, on the outskirts of Paris. (1) The wooden edifice had seen its share of peregrinations and...

Holocaust memories, historians' memoirs: first-person narrative and the memory of the Holocaust *.
March 22, 2003... HISTORIANS AND HOLOCAUST MEMOIRS It has become more common for professional historians to write about their own lives during the last few decades, but no other group of contemporary historians has shown such a propensity to write personal...

After the Witness: a report from the twentieth anniversary conference of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale. (Research Note).
March 22, 2003... Twice during a recent conference at Yale on "The Contribution of Oral Testimony to Holocaust and Genocide Studies" (6-8 October 2002), Jorge Luis Borges's "The Witness" was invoked. In this short text, Borges envisions the death of the last...

History as censure: "repression" and "philo-Semitism" in postwar Germany *. (Research Note).
March 22, 2003... Amongst the many interpretations of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung, two in particular have played an important role in discussions of West German efforts to confront the past. The first, repression, can be found in many works on the subject, even...

Imagining Yiddishland: language, place and memory *. (Research Note).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Among the more surprisingly provocative phenomena of American Yiddish culture in the post-World War II era is a small paperback entitled Say It in Yiddish, a phrase book for travelers. This volume, part of a series issued by Dover Publications...

Who is Egypt's "Hero of War and Peace"? The contest over representation *. (Research Note).(Biography)
March 22, 2003... The representation of Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat (1918-1981) as the "Hero of War and Peace" (Batal al-Harb wa-'l-Salam) combines the two most crucial decisions he made: the 1973 October War, and peace with Israel--which opened with...