On the Social History of Persecution
On the Social History of Persecution

Author: Christian Gerlach

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-03-20

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 311078971X

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This multi-disciplinary volume is one of the few collections about social change covering various cases of mass violence and genocide. In life under persecution, social relations and social structures were not absent and not simply replaced by an ethno-racial order. The studies in this book show the influence of social structures like gender, age and class on life under persecution. Exploring practices in family and labor relations and of collective action, they counter claims of an atomization of society or total uprootedness of victims. Despite being exposed to poverty and want and under the permanent threat of political violence, persecuted people tried to develop their own agency. Case studies are about the Jewish and Armenian persecutions, Rwanda, the war of decolonization in Mozambique and civilian refuges in Belarus during World War II. The authors are a mix of experienced scholars and young researchers.

Violent Space
Violent Space

Author: Anja Nowak

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2023-11-07

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 0253067456

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For Nazi Germany, the ghetto was a conceptual tool used to facilitate social and political exclusion and further their anti-Jewish campaign. For the Jews who lived in them, the ghettos became the center of their lives—even though they were also sites of immense suffering. Combining thorough historical research with an interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between space and violence, Violent Space provides a unique insight into the history and the socio-spatial topography of the Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Warsaw (1939–1943). Using rare archival materials and firsthand accounts, many of which have never been translated into English, Anja Nowak traces out the trauma that the space of the ghetto inflicted on its Jewish inhabitants, and how it alienated, disoriented, and harmed them. While the physical ghetto—its buildings, boundaries, and streets—has been reabsorbed and redefined by modern-day Warsaw's urban structure, Violent Space shows us that its presence still lingers in the narratives of those who were forced into this first phase of the Holocaust.

Places, Spaces, and Voids in the Holocaust
Places, Spaces, and Voids in the Holocaust

Author: Natalia Aleksiun

Publisher: Wallstein Verlag

Published: 2021-05-26

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 3835346792

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The EHS issues are thematic. Each issue features a selection of peer-reviewed research articles, which offer novel perspectives on the main theme. Includes: - Andrea Löw and Kim Wünschman: Film and the Reordering of City Space in Nazi Germany: The Demolition of the Munich Main Synagogue - Michal Frankl: Cast out of Civilized Society. Refugees in the No Man`s Land between Slovakia and Hungary in 1938 - Beate Meyer: Foreign Jews in Nazi Germany - Protected or Persecuted? Preliminary Results of a New Study - Dominique Schröder: Writing the Camps, Shifting the Limits of Language: Toward a Semantics of the Concentration Camps? - Tal Bruttmann, Stefan Hördler, and Christoph Kreutzmüller: A Paradoxical Panorama: Aspects of Space in Lili Jacob's Album - Irina Rebrova: Jewish Accounts of Soviet Evacuation to the North Caucasus - Malena Chinski: A New Address for Holocaust Research: Michel Borwicz and Joseph Wulf in Paris, 1947–1951 - Anna Engelking: "Our own traitor" as the Focal Point of Belarusian Folk Narrative on Local Perpetrators of the Holocaust - Hannah Wilson: The Memoryscape of Sobibór Death Camp: Commemoration and Materiality Der Band erscheint vollständig in englischer Sprache.

Polish Jewish Re-Remembering
Polish Jewish Re-Remembering

Author: Sławomir Jacek Żurek

Publisher: Academic Studies PRess

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13:

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The title of this monograph, ‘Polish-Jewish Re-Remembering’, refers to the post-1989, thirty-year-long process of reviving attention to Polish-Jewish relations in historical, cultural, and literary studies, including the impact of Jews on the development of Polish culture, their presence in Polish social life, and the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Poland. The book consists of four parts: the first focuses on Polish, Jewish and Polish-Jewish Literature (dealing mainly with pre-1939 literary works); the second, on the post-war literary output of the Polish-Jewish writer Arnold Słucki (1920–1972); the third, on Polish-Israeli literary images in the works of writers who were active in Israel (1948–2018); and the fourth, on recent (after 2000) Polish Holocaust literature.

Documenting the Armenian Genocide
Documenting the Armenian Genocide

Author: Thomas Kühne

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-01-29

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 3031367537

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This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish, Armenian, German, or other languages, thus immeasurably expanding and deepening the scholarly project of documenting and analyzing the Armenian Genocide.

Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema
Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema

Author: Matilda Mroz

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-02-09

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1137461667

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This book offers a unique perspective on contemporary Polish cinema’s engagement with histories of Polish violence against their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust. Moving beyond conventional studies of historical representation on screen, the book considers how cinema reframes the unwanted knowledge of violence in its aftermaths. The book draws on Derridean hauntology, Didi-Huberman’s confrontations with art images, Levinasian ethics and anamorphosis to examine cinematic reconfigurations of histories and memories that are vulnerable to evasion and formlessness. Innovative analyses of Birthplace (Łoziński, 1992), It Looks Pretty From a Distance (Sasnal, 2011), Aftermath (Pasikowski, 2012), and Ida (Pawlikowski, 2013) explore how their rural filmic landscapes are predicated on the radical exclusion of Jewish neighbours, prompting archaeological processes of exhumation. Arguing that the distressing materiality of decomposition disturbs cinematic composition, the book examines how Poland’s aftermath cinema attempts to recompose itself through form and narrative as it faces Polish complicity in Jewish death.

The Chambered Tombs of the Isle of Man
The Chambered Tombs of the Isle of Man

Author: Audrey Henshall

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-11-17

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 178491469X

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This is the first book ever devoted to the chambered tombs of the Isle of Man and, though there are no more than nine surviving monuments, they are of considerable interest and importance because of the central location of the island in the north Irish Sea where cultural influences and traditions of tomb building are mixed.

Between the Cradle and the Grave
Between the Cradle and the Grave

Author: Firoz Khan

Publisher: Firoz Khan

Published:

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13:

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BY FAR THE BEST NOVEL I HAVE READ IN 2013 - (one of the reviews,dated 19 Dec 2013) A boy is miraculously rescued from a lonely island. Upon investigation it is found that he is the lone survivor of an air crash that happened thirteen years ago. Unbelievably, the boy is only thirteen years old… he was born at the time of air crash! Two people manage to escape from the aircraft, a soon-to-die cancer patient who is going for medical treatment, and a pregnant lady. The lady gives birth to a baby, and dies in childbirth, due to hardships. Helpless on a lonely island, and being aware of his inevitable death soon, the man develops an ingenious idea to teach the child about the mainland and how to reach it. What is the ‘master plan’ that teaches the infant about the mainland at the age of thirteen? How does he come to know about it and escape from there? How did he manage to live alone for so long in spite of being so young? A story that inspires us to find a way, even out of utter hopelessness and teaches the purpose of life. And a striking message comes along with this captivating adventurous tale, that can change the way you think about life. Read and find the hidden treasures in you; and live towards the ultimate goal of life.