THE VICTIM'S VOICE AND MELODRAMATIC ESTHETICS IN HISTORY (Glos ofiar i estetyka melodramatu w historii)

• Authors: Goldberg Amos
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Saul Friedländer's recent 'Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination' offers a brilliant new literary mode for historical representation of extreme events such as the Holocaust. The article offers a comparative assessment of Friedländer's achievement with regard to the integration of Jewish sources into the historical account. It begins with a contextualization of Friedländer's book within a framework that compares the ways in which Jewish sources are addressed by different historiographical approaches. In the second part it seeks to contextualize analytically and critically Friedländer's concept of 'disbelief' - a concept by which he defines the role of the 'victims' voices' in his narrative. The article concludes by briefly suggesting some guidelines for an alternative approach to the study of contemporary Jewish Holocaust sources.

Keywords

EN

FRIEDLÄNDER SAUL; HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zaglada Zydów. Studia i Materialy (Holocaust. Studies and Materials)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 5
• Pages: 221-240
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Goldberg Amos

• Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08387