Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust; studii şi cercetări
Angaben zur Quelle:
1,1 (2009) 115-127
Keywords:
Anti-Zionism History 21st century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
Abstract:
Presented as the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 16 January 2003. States that Holocaust study became a pre-eminent field of scholarship and began to attract numerous students, more than any other field of Jewish studies, roughly at the same time that Jewish historiography had overcome its "lachrymose" stage and was crystallizing as a multifaceted historical discipline. Today, many students flock into classes on the Holocaust, which are generally causing them to focus on how Jews died rather than how they lived. This raises the question whether Holocaust study has anything to do with Jewish studies in the strict sense. Revising his previous views, Zipperstein concludes that the greatest trauma of Jewish history cannot be excised from Jewish studies and has got to be taken into account, especially by scholars who personally never experienced either antisemitism or the Holocaust. Regarding the present wave of what is called the "new antisemitism", suggests that we are not confronted here with antisemitism proper, but with another prejudice: a disproportional reaction to Israeli policies.
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