A matter of distinction: on recent work by Jan Assmann
The study of memory and its collaborators (history, narrative, and trauma) has been at the center of both the German- and English-language academic worlds for at least the last fifteen years. While many of the “canonical” texts overlap, the anxieties and implications of recent scholarship have often...
| Subtitles: | Review Essay |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2010]
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AJS review
Year: 2010, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 385-393 |
| Review of: | Moses the Egyptian (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997) (Slavet, Eliza)
Die mosaische Unterscheidung oder der Preis des Monotheismus (München : Hanser, 2003) (Slavet, Eliza) The price of monotheism (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010) (Slavet, Eliza) |
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| Summary: | The study of memory and its collaborators (history, narrative, and trauma) has been at the center of both the German- and English-language academic worlds for at least the last fifteen years. While many of the “canonical” texts overlap, the anxieties and implications of recent scholarship have often been quite distinct, particularly in discussions of the memory and history of the Holocaust, and more generally, anti-Semitism, Jews, and Judaism. This phenomenon is played out in the debates about Jan Assmann's work, particularly since the publication of Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism (1997). |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009410000656 |