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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Experience and Memory. Israel, the German-speaking Left, and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:The section seeks to look at the relationship of the German-speaking left and Israel from the hitherto little-noticed perspective of its Jewish members. The starting point is the observation that the occupation of Jewish leftists with Israel did not always go analogue to that of their non-Jewish comrades. While a large part of the left in Germany and Austria turned away from Israel as a result of the Six-Day War after 1967, a number of left-wing Jews such as Michael Landmann, Jean Améry, Peter Edel or Bruno Frei refrained from doing so. The background of this refusal was not least the Holocaust. In the case of Frei, the extermination of European Jewry imposed on him, as he once wrote, an „awareness of belonging“, which he had „actually believed to have been erased“ with his turn to socialism. In face of the Holocaust, however, many left-wing Jews saw themselves as part of the Jewish world again after 1945. This does not mean that they have been uncritical of Israeli policy. As members of the labor movement, they were subject to the impression of the day-to-day political events of the Cold War as well as to the same ideological imprints like their non-Jewish comrades. In one point, however, they differed – that of a „Jewish“ experience. As a result, at least some of them were more unsettled by the Holocaust and rejected the anti-Israeli threats of extermination that many of their non-Jewish comrades put forward. While the relationship of the German-speaking left with Israel has so far been mostly studied under political and ideological signs, the assumption of a factor determined by biographical and historical experience is likely to provide a differentiated picture. This applies not only to the Jewish protagonists, but also to the background of experience against which non-Jewish leftists acted on this issue. Based on Pierre Nora’s concept of „Lieux de mémoire“, this constellation is to be illuminated by three specific loci of memory.
Der Beitrag Experience and Memory. Israel, the German-speaking Left, and the Holocaust erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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