History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from September 22 2005

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from September 22 2005

Introduction.(German postwar history)
September 22, 2005... The momentous events of 1989 and the ensuing German unification, as we all know, were veritable historical turning points which, necessarily, changed historians' view of twentieth-century Germany. They changed, most obviously, the ending of the...

The archive.(Narratives)(German hitory of loss and mass death)
September 22, 2005... "No one," wrote Pascal, "dies so poor that he does not leave something behind." Setting the scene at the moment of a single individual's death and drawing attention to personal possessions, Pascal conjures up the material traces of a single...

Germany, international justice and the twentieth century.(Narratives)
September 22, 2005... The turning of the millennium has predictably spurred fresh interest in reinterpreting the twentieth century as a whole. Recent years have witnessed a bountiful crop of academic surveys, mass-market picture books and television programs devoted...

Europeanizing Germany's twentieth century.(Narratives)
September 22, 2005... Looking at Germany's twentieth century from a post-1989 perspective alerts us to a new sense of space and proportion. With the Iron Curtain torn down and buried for good, Germany--East and West alike--is no longer perceived as a border country...

Imperialism and empire in twentieth-century Germany.(Narratives)
September 22, 2005... "Imperialism" has had an uneven career in German historiography. In the 1960s and 1970s, scholars scrutinized the development of a German overseas empire during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine periods. Responding to the Fischer controversy about...

Germans as victims? Thoughts on a post-Cold War history of World War II's legacies.(Sensibilities)
September 22, 2005... Some fifty years after the end of World War II, many Germans, including leading politicians, public intellectuals, architects, journalists, writers and historians discussed the most effective way to memorialize the Holocaust, mourn Jewish...

Hatred after war: emotion and the postwar history of East Germany.(Sensibilities)
September 22, 2005... The massive eruption of deadly violence around the world during the 1940s left as many as 100 million people dead and many more wounded and scarred for life. This was probably the greatest eruption of violence the world has yet seen, and left...

Saving music: enduring experiences of culture.(Sensibilities)
September 22, 2005... Music is "about becoming," said Daniel Barenboim, "it's not the statement of a phrase that is really important, but how you get there and how you leave it and how you make the transition to the next phrase." (1) We might say the same thing...

Sexuality, memory, morality.(Sensibilities)
September 22, 2005... In view of Nazism's horrific crimes, sexuality might be seen as a frivolous or inappropriate subject for scholarly study of twentieth-century Germany. Yet precisely the opposite is the case. Among other things, careful attention to the history...

The vanishing point of German history: an essay on perspective.(The Permanent Past)
September 22, 2005... The purpose of a historian depends on his point of view. Leopold von Ranke, Histories of the Latin and Germanic Nations from 1494--1514 When it comes to history, every student seems to understand that at the end of the day it is who...

Fantasies about the Jews: cultural reflections on the Holocaust.(The Permanent Past)
September 22, 2005... Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait pas. Blaise Pascal For the history of civilization the perennial dream of sublime life has the value of a very important reality.... There is not a more dangerous tendency in history than...

Virtue in despair: a family history from the days of the Kindertransports.(The Permanent Past)(Jewish children refugees from Czech Republic (1939))
September 22, 2005... Ruth Theiner and her younger sister Esther left Prague on 30 June 1939, to arrive in England on 1 July on a so-called Kindertransport. Ruth was fifteen going on sixteen and Esther had just turned eleven the day before she left. They were on the...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
September 22, 2005... On p. 156 of the previous issue of History & Memory, vol. 16, no. 2 (fall/winter 2004), the last line in the list of contributors was deleted due to an unfortunate technical error. We apologize to Peter Zarrow for this error. The correct...