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

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

Moscow's Victory Park: a monumental change *.(the Great Patriotic War)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... Arriving in Moscow from the west, following in the footsteps of the Poles in the seventeenth century, Napoleon in 1812 and the Germans in the summer of 1941, one is confronted by the capital's "Park pobedy" (Victory Park). On entering Kutuzov...

Battlefields of memory: landscape and identity in Polish-Jewish relations.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... LANDSCAPE AS A BATTLEFIELD Landscape as a cultural construction of a group serves generally the purpose of creating and/or maintaining the group's identity. To put it more precisely, the construction of a landscape and the construction of...

Wilkomirski the victim: individual remembering as social interaction and public event *.(Binjamin Wilkomirski)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... I wanted to know everything. I wanted to absorb every detail and understand every connection. I hoped I would find answers for the pictures that came from my broken childhood memory some nights to stop me going to sleep or to give me terrifying...

The drowned and the saved: Primo Levi and Paul Steinberg in dialogue.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... "Speak, you also," Paul Celan wrote: "speak as the last, / have your say. (1) The English translation of Paul Steinberg's Auschwitz autobiography, which came out in 2000, borrows Celan's line, and is called Speak You Also. (2) Celan's line...

Parisian messianism: Catholicism, decadence, and the transgressions of Georges Bataille.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... Among the many uses to which Gershom Scholem's studies of Sabbatianism have been put, one of the most audacious is certainly Jeffrey Mehlman's attempt to argue that the intellectual lineage of French post-structuralism can be traced back to the...