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None is (Still) Too Many: Holocaust Commemoration and Historical Anesthetization
- Author(s):
- Alana Vincent (see profile)
- Date:
- 2018
- Group(s):
- Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
- Subject(s):
- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Genocide--Study and teaching, Collective memory
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- refugee, antisemitism, holocaust education, Holocaust, Genocide studies, Cultural memory
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/y62a-bb91
- Abstract:
- Institutionalized Holocaust commemoration in IHRA member states very often serves to mask problematic policies by offering reassurance that the Holocaust was perpetrated in another place, at another time, by other people. Rote commemoration runs the risk of moral anesthetization, and the further removed the original event becomes in place and time, the more difficult its lessons are to transfer to the present day. At worst, Holocaust memory feeds into a narrative of national exceptionalism, in which the capacity to commit, or to be complicit in, genocide becomes the unique attribute of enemy states, and a nation’s own record of intervention, however poor, is obscured from reflective scrutiny.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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