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

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

Holocaust Memory and Hegel.
September 22, 1999... The finite has always to be maintained and made into an absolute. Hegel To invoke the name Hegel in the context of the Holocaust--and what it means to remember it--will surely seem to some to strike a discordant tone. As cardinal...

The Task of Testimony.
September 22, 1999... On "No Common Place: The Holocaust Testimony of Alina Bacall-Zwirn" Video testimony of Alina Z., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. She recalls attending an ORT school; German invasion; ghettoization; hunger and round-ups; marriage in...

The Khmers Rouges and the Final Solution(*).
September 22, 1999... Of course there is no comparison. The event which left its mark on my generation defies analogy. Those who talk about "Auschwitz in Asia" and the "Cambodian Holocaust" do not know what they are talking about. Elie Wiesel(1) All...

Blame, Guilt and Avoidance.
September 22, 1999... The Struggle to Control the Past in Post-Socialist Mongolia(*) It is senseless to blame past history's mistakes on us. Today is not the [19]30s and 40s. Everything has its own time. We didn't choose this party to repress people. Even MAHN...

Historians and Public Memory in Japan The "Comfort Women" Controversy.
September 22, 1999... Introduction An intellectual battle divides public life in Japan today. Since 1995, writers calling themselves advocates of a "liberalist view of history" (jiyushugi shikan) have attacked academic historiography and the contents of...

Statement on the Establishment of the Council for the Creation of New History Textbooks.
September 22, 1999... Although the problems of history education have been debated repeatedly for the half-century since defeat in the last World War, debates in recent years, far from correcting the distortions, have only deepened the falsification and confusion....

The Politics of Memory.
September 22, 1999... Nation, Individual and Self(*) JAPAN'S "HISTORICAL REVISIONISTS" The Japanese political world has splintered to pieces in the aftermath of the cold war. The same splintering has occurred among intellectuals as well, as one distorted...