Holocaust Heritage: Inquiries into European Historical Cultures (The Holocaust and the European Historical Culture)

Hardcover, 173 pages, NOT ex-library. Previous owner's name at the top of half-title page. Pencil underlining and some sparse marginalia on 15 pages. Pen underlining on 2 pages & minor marks in pen on 9 pages (no more than a couple of short lines per page). Else book is clean, untanned, firmly bound. Untorn dust jacket shows gentle shelfworn and dusty marks, a touch of creasing along the edges. -- Revised papers from the conference "Echoes of the Holocaust" held 2003 in Lund University. -- Contents: Preface; Making Sense of the Holocaust after Sixty Years: An Introduction / Klas-Göran Karlsson [An Introduction; Holocaust and European Historical Culture; Holocaust Texts and Contexts; Two Perspectives on State-Sponsored Holocaust History in Sweden; Holocaust Historical Culture; History-Cultural Approaches; Disposition of the Book]; Interpreting the Holocaust: Some Theoretical Issues / Jörn Rüen [Reconstruction versus Teleology; Concept of Historical Culture; Historical Culture as a Realm of Identity Formation; What Makes Culture 'Historical'?; Problem of De-Traumatization; Approaching the Holocaust by Mourning as a New Mode of Making Sense of History]; Auschwitz and the Collective Memory: Thoughts about a Place and its Usage / Claus Bryld [A Personal Review; Auschwitz: The Facts; Auschwitz as a Memorial Site; Memory, Amnesia and Power; Right to Remember Freely; Auschwitz - What Have We Learned?; Epilogue]; Holocaust and the Decline of European Values / Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke [Great Mystery; Kertész and The Girl in the Red Coat; No Word about the Victims; When Europe Lost Its Innocence; Holocaust as a Cultural Marker]; Tormented Memories: The Holocaust Memory in Israel: A Case Study / Dalia Ofer [Holocaust Memory in Israel; Victims and Survivors: The Bulgarian Forest and Its Commemoration in Contest; Historical Background; The Controversy; Voices of Protest; Conclusion]; Austria's Reversed Holocaust Perception: The "Allied Occupation" and the Collective Memory of Austrians after 1945 / Oliver Rathkolb [1945- Liberation?; 'Victim-Only' Thesis; Allied Scapegoat; Restitution and the Awakening of Holocaust Memory; Austrian Antisemitism and Holocaust Memory]; Road to Gleboczyca: Polish Historical Culture at the Crossroads / Wladyslaw Bulhak [Meaning of Poland; Surnames: Elements of Polish Historical Culture; End of the Commonwealth; Russians, Elders of Zion and the Polish Plot; Thoughts of a Modern Pole; Galician Sarajevo; Failed Interwar Synthesis; Death of Gleboczyca; Refrigeration Effect]; Reflections of the Holocaust in Slovak Society and Literature / Ivan Kamenec [Slovak Antisemitism; Economie Profits; Christian Tradition; Communist Erasure; Post-Communist Ambiguity; Slovak Revisionism; Totalitarian Heritage] -- In the first post-war decades, the prevailing attitude to the Nazi destruction of European Jewry was silence. Today, the situation is radically different. The Holocaust is intensely and widely discussed in many states and societies. The discussions reflect various interests and needs, among them aesthetic, commercial, cultural, existential, ideological, legal, moral, political and scholarly. By means of a common history-cultural approach, in which history is analysed in relationship to phenomena such as historical consciousness, memory and trauma, the authors of this anthology analyse such various topics as Israeli efforts to commemorate the rescuing of the Bulgarian Jews, and the discussions in Denmark concerning January 27 as an Auschwitz memorial day.This book is the second collection of reports from The Holocaust and European Historical Culture, a research project based at Lund University, Sweden. The aim of the project, initiated in 2001, is to study the interpretations and representations of the Holocaust in various post-war European societies and states.…