Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust, Konrad Kwiet and Jürgen Matthäus, eds. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2004), xix + 287 pp., 105.00
In their introduction, Kwiet and Matthäus note the inadequacy of any scholarship to date to explain the Holocaust, as well as the gap between academic scholarship and the collective memory of the non-academic public. They argue that “the professional keepers of memory have for a long time failed to...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 537-539 |
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| Summary: | In their introduction, Kwiet and Matthäus note the inadequacy of any scholarship to date to explain the Holocaust, as well as the gap between academic scholarship and the collective memory of the non-academic public. They argue that “the professional keepers of memory have for a long time failed to provide the basis on which others could build” (p. xi), but limit themselves to the more modest wish to offer “a temporary beacon of orientation in a shifting landscape of memory” (p. xviii). Few of the book's chapters actually address the question of memory, however, and while some chapters discuss ways in which non-academics understand the Holocaust, the book as a whole hardly bridges the gap between academics and the public. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn052 |