מטרת העבודה היתה לחקור את הבניית זיכרונות של ניצולי שואה בתוך ההקשר האישי, הבין-אישי, התרבותי והחברתי של חייהם. זיכרונות ניצולי השואה נבנו בתוך ההקשרים של השואה, של חיים במדינת ישראל, ושל המעבר ההתפתחותי לאורך שלבי החיים ושלב הזקנה הנוכחי שבו מסופרים זיכרונות הניצולים. מאפיין מר…
מחקר זה יעסוק בהתרחשות ההיסטורית הייחודית של מחנה ההשמדה סוביבור. סוביבור הוקם במסגרת מבצע ריינהרד לחיסול יהודי הגנרלגוברנמן, נבנה בתחילת שנת 1942 על מנת לבצע את הפתרון הסופי ליהודי מחוז לובלין של הגנרלגוברנמן )כשם שבלז'ץ הוקם לטיפול ביהודי מחוזות גליציה המזרחית וקרקוב וטרבלינקה…
This Doctor of Musical Arts document is an exploration of the four soprano song cycles by Lori Laitman based on text settings from victims of the Holocaust, with a specific focus on the compositional and performance devices that both underpin the power of words to bear witness t…
The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the role of collective memory in the European 'postnational' constellation. In nation-building processes, the construction of a common past has played a well documented role in fostering notions of a collective political actor. If Europ…
This dissertation studies aesthetic, political and ethical dimensions of the representation of Holocaust perpetrators in Hebrew and Israeli fiction published since the mid-1940s. Drawing on recent scholarship by Holocaust historians, such as Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldh…
Paul Fussell has remarked that our understanding of modernity throughout the last century; “is essentially ironic; and that it originates largely in the application of mind and memory to the events of the Great War.” What this dissertation demonstrates is that World War I, while…
Today, most Holocaust survivors are over the age of 70. Conversations about the Holocaust will soon be limited to interpretations of texts. As the events of the Holocaust recede in time, the more prominent its memorials become in telling the story. As a particularly Jewish exper…
As a public intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate, Elie Wiesel has stressed the importance of Holocaust remembrance and solidarity with those who suffer oppression today. While Wiesel's work has been largely ignored by secular scholars in the social sciences, Jewish and Christia…
Genocide Genres investigates the transnational circulation of atrocity testimony, writing which describes the most spectacularly failed of human encounters. In particular, my project compares the production and reception of atrocity narratives across three distinct, post-WWII di…
The Holocaust of Nazi Germany raises questions that threaten to undermine current assumptions about the foundations of the Humanities, the Social Sciences, Philosophy and Theology. The academic community and other contemporary institutions fail to appreciate the significance of …
Despite the diversity of responses to the Holocaust, most survivors and writers remarkably agree on the following: there is something absolutely unrepresentable about the Holocaust. There have been two predominant ways of explaining this. First, the Holocaust is thought to have …
Remembering Memory: The Holocaust and the “Second Generation” is a study of the literary responses of the generation of writers born after the Holocaust. My use of the term second generation expands the commonly used definition, which describes literary texts that approach Holoc…
This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic--the systematic use of rape as a strategic weapon of the genocidal anti-Jewish violence, known collectively as pogroms, that erupted in Ukraine in the period between 1917 and 1921, and in which at least 100,000 J…
This is a groundbreaking study of an important and neglected topic--the systematic use of rape as a strategic weapon of the genocidal anti-Jewish violence, known collectively as pogroms, that erupted in Ukraine in the period between 1917 and 1921, and in which at least 100,000 J…