Sprache:
Deutsch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
6,1 (1996) 117-148
Schlagwort(e):
Dischereit, Esther,
;
Duden, Anne.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
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Jewish women in literature
Kurzfassung:
Compares the treatment of a woman's memory of the Holocaust in Dischereit's "Joëmis Tisch" and Duden's "Das Judasschaf". Dischereit, herself the daughter of a survivor, has her protagonist relive the sufferings of her mother who was persecuted both racially and sexually. She identifies male with Christian and perpetrator, female with Jewish and victim. But she is aware that many German women were also Nazis. Duden's protagonist, born shortly before the Wannsee Conference, suffers as a German from an inborn guilt; in sleepless nights the dead of the Holocaust invade her body and she almost suffocates. Duden equates female with remembering and with innocent victim, male with forgetting and with perpetrator. Questions whether Duden's use of Christian metaphors does not permit antisemitic associations; she writes out of the mythology of her own culture, not, like Dischereit, that of the victims.
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