Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era

The Ethics of Never Again

Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider

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Routledge
10 June 2019

The Holocaust; Violence in society; Sociology

Series: Memory Studies: Global Constellations

"To forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with other narratives of victimization that demand equal treatment. Are there crimes that must be forgotten and others that should be remembered?

In this book the authors examine the effects of a globalized Holocaust culture on the ways in which individuals and groups understand the moral and political significance of their respective histories of extreme political violence. Do such transnational memories facilitate or hamper the task of coming to terms with and overcoming divisive pasts? Taking Argentina, Spain and a number of sites in post-communist Europe as test cases, this book illustrates the transformation from a nationally oriented ethics to a trans-national one. The authors look at media, scholarly discourse, NGOs dealing with human rights and memory, museums and memorial sites, and examine how a new generation of memory activists revisits the past to construct a new future. Baer and Sznaider follow these attempts to manoeuvre between the duties of remembrance and the benefits of forgetting. This, the authors argue, is the ""ethics of Never Again."""

By: Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367359188
ISBN 10: 0367359189
Series: Memory Studies: Global Constellations
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 10 June 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era: The Ethics of Never Again

'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