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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Distorted Memory. Inner-Jewish disputes on the “prehistory” of the Holocaust after 1945
DESCRIPTION:In the panel “Distorted Memory” we investigate how the period of Nazi persecution was interpreted by different Jewish communities after the Holocaust. Our papers focus on debates within various Jewish communities about their interpretations of the Holocaust, using Germany, Yugoslavia and Romania as examples. The panel focuses on the question of how knowledge of the Holocaust shaped and changed the view of what preceded it. The starting point of our investigation is the assumption that certain perceptions, questions and problems that only developed from the experiences of the Holocaust were projected retrospectively onto its prehistory.
Any Jewish activity in the 1920s and 1930s, whether political or private, seemed, from a later perspective, to be inevitably linked to the later experience of the Holocaust. Often the various Jewish communities were accused of not having reacted appropriately and timely enough to what was to come, as if they had been able to foresee the Holocaust. This had a significant impact on historical scholarship in particular, where the observation that (Jewish) contemporaries could not have anticipated the Holocaust had to be proven. The panel traces this development in geographically and methodologically wide-ranging studies. These studies examine the different approaches to explaining the experience of the Holocaust and the different mechanisms of coping with it, which in many places ultimately led to sometimes fierce disputes over the correct interpretation among Jewish communities. Together, the individual contributions aim to offer a different view on the “prehistory of the Holocaust”. At the same time, the panel aims to identify from the various contributions common factors that led to “distorted memories” and which – according to our first hypothesis – ranged from strategic, political or pragmatic considerations to personal feelings of shame and remorse.
The panel offers not only a historical, but also a critical historiographical analysis that is intended to give new insights into the “pre-” and “post-” history of the Holocaust. It thus intervenes in the current research discussion on Jewish agency in the crisis periods of the 20th century.
A panel of the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo-Baeck-Instituts (WAG)
Der Beitrag Distorted Memory. Inner-Jewish disputes on the “prehistory” of the Holocaust after 1945 erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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