1st Edition
Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era The Ethics of Never Again
List of figures
Acknowledgments
1 The Ethics of Never Again: global constellations
2 Nunca Más : Argentine Nazis and Judíos del Sur
3 Francoism reframed: the disappeared of the Spanish Holocaust
4 Eastern Europe: exhuming competing pasts
5 Beyond Antigone and Amalek : toward a memory of hope
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Alejandro Baer is Associate Professor of Sociology, Stephen C. Feinstein Chair and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota, USA.
Natan Sznaider is a Full Professor of Sociology at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel.
‘This book is a courageous critique of generalizing the Holocaust into a universal frame for evil and victimhood, and making the commemoration of massive violence a moral obligation. With sensitivity, the authors examine the costs of the ensuing divisiveness, and propose dialogue, compromise, and the acknowledgment of past suffering instead.’ - Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Utrecht University, Netherlands
‘… the authors’ general reflections about the mantra Never Again and the challenging and bold lesson of Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era regarding the ‘dark side’ of the well-intentioned but complex idea of Never Again are an important message for activists, practitioners, scholars and citizens alike.’ - European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
