Call for Articles »Holocaust Studies and Materials« 2021

13.05.2020 16:10:36

  
Editorial Board of the scholarly yearbook "Zaglada Zydow. Studia i Materialy / Holocaust Studies and Materials" invites authors to submit articles proposals to the 2021 eddition devoted to various forms of the Holocaust’s presence in public space
 

Call for Articles

Call for Articles

YEAR 2021

The Holocaust in Public Space: Articulations, Abuses, Interceptions

We wish to devote volume 17 of the Holocaust. Studies and Materials annual (2021) to various forms of the Holocaust’s presence in public space. What we mean is not only the Holocaust history or ways of its commemoration, but also its ideologization and instrumentalization for political purposes, as well as broadly-defined representations of the Holocaust experience in art, film, and literature, the exhibition strategies in museums and commemorative practices in public space, and, last but not least, the Holocaust’s presence in the new media, chiefly on the Internet (both educational websites, websites of official research or museum institutions, social media, and initiatives undertaken by private individuals and social organizations). Thus the editorial staff returns to the issues which constituted the core of volume 6 (2010), though in an different and expanded form. By doing this we wish to understand the reasons for the severing of the historical continuity in the comprehension of the Holocaust (as a past event of a specified structure) and its transformation into individual currently updated memory facts appropriated and taken over by individuals and entire communities. Back in 2010 we were interested in the subject matter halfway between ethics and esthetics: the Holocaust kitsch and the various abuses in the journalistic, literary, and artistic representation of the Holocaust and in the public discourse. This is a reflection relatively ingrained in the contemporary humanities (see the classic works by Tom Segev — The Seventh Million. The Israelis and the Holocaust [1991], Peter Novick — The Holocaust and Collective Memory. The American Experience [1999], Tim Cole Selling the Holocaust. From Auschwitz to Schindler. How History is Bought, Packaged, and Sold [1999], or Ruth Franklin — A Thousand Darknesses. Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction [2011]).

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