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2010-12-01

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On the Abuses in Research of the Holocaust Experience

Jacek Leociak

jleociak@gmail.com

lecturer in the Institute of Literary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, head of the Holocaust Literature Studies Department of the Institute, member of the Polish Centre for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Recent works: (co-author with Barbara Engelking), The Warsaw Getto. A Guide to the Perished City (2009, Polish edition 2001), Doświadczenia graniczne. Studia o dwudziestowiecznych formach reprezentacji (2009), Ratowanie. Opowieści Polaków i Żydów, (2010)

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1471-6926

Institite of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, 2010: Holocaust Studies and Materials, pages: 385-396

Publication date: 2010-11-30

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.138

Abstract

The abuses in the presentation of the Holocaust in art, film, and literature have been extensively studied in contemporary humanist studies.  The analyses point to the phenomenon of the Holocaust’s McDonaldization, its political instrumentalization, ideological manipulation and commercialization.  The article is an attempt at a critical examination of a different dimension of the phenomenon in question, hitherto overlooked, namely the abuses in Holocaust research.  The author points at a number of dangers which appear in the academic Holocaust discourse – from the “source myth” to narcissistic temptations

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Leociak, J. (2010). On the Abuses in Research of the Holocaust Experience. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (Holocaust Studies and Materials), 385-396. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.138

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                            View 2010: Holocaust Studies and Materials

2010: Holocaust Studies and Materials

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2010-12-01

Dział: Materials