Language:
French
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Pardès
Angaben zur Quelle:
9-10 (1989) 199-210
Keywords:
Jews Historiography
;
Pogroms History
;
Antisemitism Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Case studies Historiography
Abstract:
A paper delivered at the colloquium "Penser Auschwitz" in Paris, November 1988. Surveys the ways, throughout history, that Jews expressed mourning following disaster - the "kinot" of Tisha b’Av being the real "library of the Jewish catastrophe." Only in the 20th century (before World War I) did Jewish intellectuals (among them S. Ansky) make an appeal to Jews to gather documents and to write about their experiences. Ansky wrote the six-volume "Khurban Galitsye" ("The Destruction of Galicia"). In 1918 Elias Tcherikover organized an archive of documents on pogroms in the Ukraine. Mentions, as well, the Ringelblum archives in the Warsaw ghetto. Suggests that all of these collections of documents are an important continuation of the "library of the Jewish catastrophe" and should be treated as sacred, because the destruction of the Jews of Europe was so total, and because their reading makes mourning possible and teaches how to live in the shadow of death.
Note:
Appeared in English as "The library of Jewish catastrophe" in "Holocaust Remembrance; the Shapes of Memory" (1994) 33-41, and in his collection "The Jewish Search for a Usable Past" (1999) 17-25; and in Italian as "La biblioteca della catastrofe ebraica" in "Pensare Auschwitz" (1995) 225-236.
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