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The Holocaust and the question of narrative representation of historic reality

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Kendziorek P.

Kwartalnik Historii Żydow

2006

issue 1(217)

48-67

The author reviews the study by A. Ziebinska-Witek 'Holocaust. Problemy przedstawiania' (The Holocaust: the Problems with Presentation), which he uses as a springboard for the critique of the post-modernist reflexion over the historiography of the Holocaust. The critical arguments refer to questions of inner cohesion of the narrative constructivist approach to historical activities by the author of the study, the direct relationship between modernity as a cultural formation and the Holocaust assumed by her and the arguments advanced by her in favour of developing new ways of presenting the Holocaust, in which the question of formulating and using metaphors would play a crucial role. The author points out that the intellectual instruments of social sciences have little to do with the naive 'mimetic' or 'positivistic' approach attributed to them by the author of this study, whereas the post-modernist abandoning of the approach to the socio-historic reality as an objective structure is conducive to cognitive irrationalism, which is particularly dangerous in relation to Holocaust problems. The author juxtaposes the tradition of post-enlightenment, left-wing social critique to post-modernist 'radical' criticism of modernity (including modern science).

Socio-Political Assessment of the Nature of World War II in the Warsaw Ghetto's Underground Press

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Kendziorek P.

Kwartalnik Historii Żydow

2006

issue 3(219)

341-353

The article looks at the assessment of the socio-political nature of ongoing war in the underground press of the Warsaw Ghetto. The subject matter was in the centre of disputes particularly before the German attack against the Soviet Union, when two approaches to these problems evolved among the Jewish Left underground. The proponents of the one approach invoked the Communist concept of intra-imperialist war (to which the workers' movement should respond with the so-called revolutionary defeatism), while the advocates of the other school of thought saw the war as a clash between a camp of totalitarian fascist regimes and Western democracies. One additional contribution to the dispute, which went beyond that division, was the approach expounded in the press by anti-Stalinist Communists invoking Leon Trotsky's ideals, who formulated the theory of the so-called Jacobin war as the recommended groundwork of the activities of the workers' movement in democratic countries.

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The Holocaust and the question of narrative representation of historic reality

Socio-Political Assessment of the Nature of World War II in the Warsaw Ghetto's Underground Press