An Introduction to Holocaust Studies

Bernard–Donals, Michael

doi:10.4324/9781315507934

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“…Langer (1995: 158) considers the origins of such translations to be ‘characteristically American’. This transformation in terminology has been so absolute that even the canonic An Introduction to Holocaust Studies (2005) provides numerous index entries for ‘survivors’, but none for ‘victims’ (Bernard-Donals, 2005: 299).…”

Section: The Holocaust Survivormentioning

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(Re)Made in America: Survivorship after the Shoah

Cole

2021

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Until the l970s, ‘survivor’ referred predominantly to individuals who outlived others in the aftermath of disaster, or stood to inherit the remains of an estate; it was not imbued with evaluative connotations. In the United States today, however, survivorship abounds with positive meanings. This transvaluation rests on three intersecting trajectories that together transformed survivorship from denoting that one sustained or was spared a hardship to signifying a superior social status. The first trajectory follows the aftermath of the Shoah, when survivors acquired moral authority as victims of and public witnesses to a new violation, ‘crimes against humanity’. The second tracks the stigmatization of the term ‘victim’ in American public discourse. A consequence of struggles over the welfare state and other progressive policies, victimhood is now associated less with specific harms or injuries, and more with the supposed negative attributes of the victim herself. The third traces how survivorship became integral to the recuperative strategies of new therapeutic disciplines addressing the traumatized – from war veterans and rape victims to cancer patients. These three processes coalesced to create and legitimize a hierarchical opposition between ‘victims’ and ‘survivors’, transforming these terms into political categories and emblems of personal and group identity. In this essay, I argue that the victim/survivor binary constitutes one juncture where neoliberalism converges with Trump-era populism.

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Section: The Holocaust Survivormentioning

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(Re)Made in America: Survivorship after the Shoah

Cole

2021

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…The Muninn project has modeled historical military and civil organizations and their detailed structures, as RDF ontologies based on data from Wikipedia, with a focus on recording WW1 and facilitating data interchange in that domain [216]. The data model covers other related WW1 information, with stable ontologies 15 for military organizations, graves, and religions, and two related taxonomies of military terms.…”

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“…Projects have created and published Linked Data about the domain, e.g., [216,53,152,28], but this generally focuses on historical collection metadata, instead of actually representing the events and narratives of wars. In addition, the Linked Data projects have focused more on the First World War (WW1), instead of the more global, complex, and recent WW2, except in the domain of holocaust studies [15].…”

Section: Introduction 11 Background and Research Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%