Conference on the publication of a special issue of The Journal of Holocaust Research in honor of Prof. Saul Friedländer on his 90th birthday

22 March 2023

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Participants: Prof. Dina Porat, Prot. Gavriel Rosenfeld, Prof. David Ohana, Prof. Michal Govrin, Prof. Carlo Ginzburg, Prof. Saul Friedländer, Yoav Yaron

Organized by: the Alfred P. Slaner Chair in Antisemitism and Racism The Journal of Holocaust Research, University of Haifa https://twitter.com/JHR_Haifa

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/Mz9pZ3rwOSc

Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Saul Friedländer's 90th Birthday

Introduction (with Yehuda Bauer) by Dina Porat, Carlo Ginzburg, Michal Govrin, David Ohana, Gavriel Rosenfeld

Forum: Transmitting the Memory of the Shoah

Lecture: Some Reflections on Transmitting the Memory of the Shoah and its Implications, Particularly in Israel by Saul Friedländer

Shaping the Myth of the Memory of the Shoah – response to Saul Friedländer by Michal Govrin

Reading Friedlander in Auschwitz by Michal Rovner

Friedländer: Life and Writing

When Memory Comes: Let the Tears Flow by Paul Mendes-Flohr

Restorative Memory in the Writings of Saul Friedländer by David Ohana

When Memory Comes, Where Memory Leads by Dina Porat

Between Memory and History by Carlo Ginzburg

Friedländer on Nazi Antisemitism by Shulamit Volkov

Theory, Methodology, Historiography

Arguing the Holocaust: Legal Anthropology and Theological Form by Dan Diner

Between Integrated and First-Person History: Writing the Holocaust from Within by Omer Bartov

An Arduous Affair: Some Remarks about the Holocaust in German Historiography and Memory by Norbert Frei

History Strikes Back by Shlomo Ben-Ami

Historical Cases and Characters

An American in Germany: Fall 1940 by Christopher Browning

Revisiting “Two Jewish Historians in Extremis”: Elias Tcherikower and Marc Bloch by Richard Cohen

Inventing a ‘Genocide’: The Political Abuses of a Powerful Concept in Contemporary India  by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Zionism and Contemporary Christianity in the Public Square by Ilan Troen

Saul Friedländer Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography

Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust by Jan Grabowski and Shira Klein

Holocaust Survivors Returning to their Hometowns in the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian Borderlands, 1944–1948 by Magdalena Waligórska, Yechiel Weizman Alexander Friedman, Ina Sorkina  

A Plagiarized Testimony? Authorship, Legacy, and the Holocaust Art of Henryk Beck and Zinovii Tolkachev by Anastasiia Simferovska 

The Eyewitness War Museum in the Netherlands: Spectacle, Experience, and Usurping the Witness by Laura Morowitz

Narratives of Resistance, Moral Compromise, and Perpetration: The Testimonies of Julia Brichta, Survivor of Ravensbrück by Gilly Carr

Pianos and Paintings from Transnistria: The Plunder of ‘Cultural Trophies’ During the Romanian Occupation (1941-1944) by Svetlana Suveica

A Cache of Family Letters and the Historiography of the Holocaust: Interpretive Reflections by Shirli Gilbert

Non-Jewish ‘Full Jews’: The Everyday Life of a Forgotten Group Within Nazi Germany by Harry Legg

Rachel Auerbach and the Eichmann Trial: A New Conception of Victims’ Testimonies by Leora Bilsky

Special Issue: The Future of Holocaust Memory

An Appeal for Passing: A Call for the Critical Reconsideration of Research on Jewish Passing During the Holocaust by Hana Green

Marginalization and Local Commemoration of Third Reich Victims in Germany by Thomas Vanderbeek

The Innocent Perpetrators. The portrayal of “German victimhood” in the historical movie event 'Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter’/’Generation War’ (2013) by Lukas Meissel

Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial, and Germany’s Far Right: How the AfD Tiptoes around Nazism by Michelle Kahn

Czech Memory Culture, the Holocaust and the Politics of History by Eva Kalousova 

Forum: The Holocaust in Virtual Reality: Ethics and Possibilities by Jennifer Rich & Mikkel Dack

Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Yehuda Bauer on His 95^th Birthday

'Why is the Shoah called “The Shoah” or “The Holocaust”? A history of the terminology and how it is used by Dan Michman

 The Many Faces of the Inmate as Worker in Artworks of Political Prisoners in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp by Ella Falldorf

“I searched for words”: Holocaust Survivor Poetry in Postwar Association Journals by Ellis Spicer

Reinterpreting Jewish Petitioning Practices During the Shoah: Contestation, Transnational Space, and Survival by Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Anne Frank Still in the Attic: Ethics of Forgetting in Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy by Lola Serraf

The Underlife of Transnistria’s Ghettos: Recategorizing and Reframing Social Interaction by Ana Bărbulescu

Multigenerational Experiences of Flight: The Case of Jewish Refugees from Galicia and Bukovina in Vienna and Lower Austria, 1918–1941 by Benjamin Grilj

Special Issue: Confronting Hatred: Neo-Nazism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust Studies Today

The Evolian Imagination: Gender, Race, and Class from Fascism to the New-Right by Robert Deam Tobin

Fighting Hate with Speech Law: Media and German Visions of Democracyby Heidi J. S. Tworek

Memory, Responsibility, and Transformation: Antiracist Pedagogy, Holocaust Education, and Community Outreach in Transatlantic Perspective by Manuela Achilles and Hannah Winnick

Holocaust Studies in our Age of Catastrophe by Atina Grossmann

The Perils of Naming: On Donald Trump, Jews, and Antisemites by David N. Meyers

Dream and Fantasy in Shutter Island: Trauma, Historical Guilt, and Ethics by Sandra Meiri  and Odeya Kohen-Raz 

Coming of Age During the Holocaust: The Adult Roles and Responsibilities of Young Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Barnabas Balint 

Sensory Witnessing in Treblinka by Jacob Flaws

Special Issue: Interrogating Evil: A Special Issue of the Journal of Holocaust Research for Lawrence L. Langer on His Ninetieth Birthday

Introduction by Gabriel N. Finder, Dawn Skorczewski, and Dan Stone

My Life with Holocaust Death by Lawrence L. Langer

Holocaust Testimonies: Problems Analyzed, Promises Fulfilled by Joanne Weiner Rudof  

‘Consider If’: Levi, Langer, Agamben, and the Unthinkable by Jennifer L. Geddes

‘The Detours Required’: Sarah Kofman and the ‘Black Milk’ of Hidden Children by Sara R. Horowitz

‘Disrupted Narratives’: Lawrence Langer’s Explorations of Deep Memory in Holocaust Testimonies by Noah Shenker

‘I Was a Tape Recorder. I Was a Mailing Box.’: Jan Karski’s Interviews by Dawn Skorczewski and Dan Stone

Un-American? Or Just ‘Inglourious’? Reflections on the ‘Americanization of the Holocaust’ from Langer to Tarantino by Barry Langford  

‘A Horrific Impression of Jewish Martyrdom’: Regarding Extermination of Polish Jews: Album of Pictures by Gabriel N. Finder

Special Issue: Re-thinking the Muselmann: Narratives, Concepts, and Social Realities

Introduction: Rethinking the Muselmann in Nazi Concentration Camps and Ghettos: History, Social Life, and Representation by Michael Becker and Dennis Bock

Muselmanner and Prisoner Societies: Toward a Sociohistorical Understanding by Michael Becker and Dennis Bock

Morality and Muselmann: Mapping Virtues and Norms in prisoners' Socieities of Mathausen and Auschwitz-Birkenau by Imke Hansen

The Female Muselmann in Nazi Concentration Camp Discourse by Sharon B. Oster

The Muselmann and Nectrotopography of a Ghetto by Bozena Shallcross

No One Wants to Draw the Muselmann? Visual Representation of the Muselmann in Comics by Markus Streb and Ole Frahm

Special Issue: Motherhood and the Holocaust

Introduction: Motherhood During and After the Holocaust: Testimonial and Fictional Perspectives by Helena Duffy

Saints and Martyrs: Popular maternal Tropes in Holocaust Memoir by Carmelle Stephens

(Re)claiming Motherhood in Wake of the Holocaust in Chava Rosenfarb's 'Littel Red Bird' and Valentine Goby's Kinderzimmer by Nathali Segeral

Deportation, the Maternal Abject, and Impossibility of Selfhood: Jacqueline Saveria Hure's 1954 Ni sains ni saufs by France Granaudier-Klijn

The Silence of Mothers: Art Spiegelman's Maus and Phillipe Claduel's Brodeck by Helena Duffy

Folding Memory: The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and the Commemoration of the Shoah by Eran Neuman

The Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem: Israel's Holocaust Commemoration Monument by Doron Bar

The 'Gray Zone' in Cinema: Representations of the Kapo in Israeli Cinema by Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan

 New Sources on the Holocaust:

The Pre-1914 Origins of Hitler's Antisemitism Revisited by Thomas Weber

The Pre-1914 Origins of Hitler's Antisemitism Revisited - Response by Moshe Zimmermann

 Solidarity and Animosity Among Sonderkommando Prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Gideon Greif

Jewish Collaboration? Honor Court Cases Against Survivors of the Shoah in Postwar Germany by Philipp Dinkelaker

Jewish-Gentile Relations in Hiding during the Holocaust in Sokołów County, Poland (1942 - 1944) by Miranda Brethour

Retroactive Continuity, Holocaust Testimony, and X-Men’s Magneto by Charlotte Werbe

Israeli and Polish Holocaust Commemoration in Rutu Modan’s The Property by Matt Reingold

Review Essay:

National Socialism as a Research Topic in German-Language Sociology: Thoughts on a Hesitant Development by Maja Suderland and Michaela Christ

Special Section: Drawing Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Cartoons and Comics

Introduction by Kobi Kabalek

This Way to the Ovens, Señoras y Señores: Holocaust Cartoons in Latin America by Ilan Stavans

Third-Generation Graphic Syndrome: New Directions in Comics and Holocaust Memory in the Age after Testimony by Assaf Gamzou