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The Victim’s Voice and Melodramatic Esthetics in History
Amos Goldberg
redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl Author BiographyP.hD. he works at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Editor and co-author of 4 volume Years Wherein We Have Seen Evil: Selected Aspects in the History of Religious Jewry During the Holocaust, Yad Vashem 2003–2007
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6361-3232
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 5 (2009), Pages: 221-240
Submission Date: 2020-10-16Publication Date: 2009-11-09
https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.313
Abstract
Saul Friedländer’s recent Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination offers a brilliant new literary mode for historical representation of extreme events such as the Holocaust. The article offers a comparative assessment of Friedländer’s achievement with regard to the integration of Jewish sources into the historical account. It begins with a contextualization of Friedländer’s book within a framework that compares the ways in which Jewish sources are addressed by different historio-graphical approaches. In the second part it seeks to contextualize analytically and critically Friedländer’s concept of „disbelief” – a concept by which he defines the role of the „victims’ voices” in his narrative. The article concludes by briefly suggesting some guidelines for an alternative approach to the study of contemporary Jewish Holocaust sources
Keywords
Holocaust historiography , witness , Saul Friedländer
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