The Voids of Sepharad: The Memory of the Holocaust in Spain

Baer, Alejandro

doi:10.1080/14636204.2011.556879

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“…The fact that most deported Spaniards were militant antifascists—and not Jews—obviously complicates the framing of memory. That brings us back to the debates about the meaning of the term “Holocaust” (which also makes it possible to define who its victims are) and the options available for universalization of the never again slogan discussed in the second section of this essay (see also Baer, 2011). Both Jews and Spanish Republicans—though to different degrees—were victims of the Nazi terror.…”

Section: The Graves Of Francoism and The Desaparecidos Of The Spanish Holocaustmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, or the Memory Park in Buenos Aires). 6 We also see its shape in official acts of commemoration (27 January as Day of Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity, and the activities connected with that commemoration; Baer, 2011; Baer and Schnettler, 2012; Schnettler et al, 2010). The Holocaust has become the paradigmatic “Never Again” from which all other “never agains” derive.…”

Section: The Holocaust and The Politics Of “Never Again”mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ghosts of the Holocaust in Franco’s mass graves: Cosmopolitan memories and the politics of “never again”

Baer

Sznaider

2015

Memory Studies

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This essay presents a sociological analysis of what is known in Spain as the "recovery of historical memory" and the politics deriving from this recovery. This process was catalyzed by the exhumations of the remains of victims of Francoism that have been under way since the beginning of the twenty-first century. In order to do this, we will use the literature on cosmopolitan sociology and provide a dialogue between this sociology and recent developments in the study of social and cultural memory using concepts like postmemory, multidirectional, and cosmopolitan memory. The article moves beyond the national context and looks at Spanish memory politics through the theory and praxis of Holocaust memory on the one hand and the memory of the Argentinean victims of the military dictatorship on the other hand. This will enable us to identify the components and problems of a culture and politics of globalized memory.He cavado la fosa de mis muertos en el aire, donde sus huesos ligeros

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Section: The Graves Of Francoism and The Desaparecidos Of The Spanish Holocaustmentioning

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Section: The Holocaust and The Politics Of “Never Again”mentioning

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Ghosts of the Holocaust in Franco’s mass graves: Cosmopolitan memories and the politics of “never again”

Baer

Sznaider

2015

Memory Studies

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“…In line with classical (Durkheim [1912] 2001) and modern work (Bellah 1970;Collins 2005;Douglas 1966;Shils 1981), rituals sanctify the nation, strengthen communities, and reaffirm knowledge. Strategic actors, entrepreneurs with substantial resources at hand, initiate and structure these rituals (see also Baer 2011;Karakaya and Baer 2019). They display great epistemic power.…”

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The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions: An Everyday Perspective from Nahr el-Bared Camp

Issa

2021

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the latter with the financial support of the French State, programme "Investissements d'avenir, " managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-LABX-0027-01 Labex RFIEA+).The institutes, with their facilities and staff, provided ideal environments for writing and for exchanges with colleagues from many countries and disciplines, guarding against parochialism. STIAS enhanced my understanding of other societies' engagement with dark pasts. Many fellows, especially from diverse parts of the African continent, enriched my experience. The IEA served as a basis from which to engage with the rich intellectual life of Paris and to reach out to civil society and political actors. I built on benefits received during the summer of 2016 as a guest of the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.More individuals than I can mention merit special mention. I ask those left out for forgiveness. The names of numerous interviewees in Paris, Massachusetts, and Minnesota have to remain anonymous. To them I am especially grateful.In Paris, Liora Israël and Jacques Commaille laid the foundation for a series of successful research visits, and John Hagan and Philip Smith helped pave the way to the French capital.

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“…The HRD ceremony thus interacted with the local mnemonic struggles and allowed the articulations of issues that had been swept under the rug after the so‐called pact of oblivion of the Spanish transition. The definition of “the Holocaust” and the boundaries of the historical event under such a name (singularly focused on the Jewish experience, or expanded to the other victims of Nazism) became a symbolic battleground of competing claims, the HRD commemoration being only one of the fields in which this battle is fought (Baer ; Baer and Sznaider )…”

Section: Holocaust Remembrance Day In Spain: Holocaust and Crimes Agamentioning

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“Such Hatred Has Never Flourished on Our Soil”: The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Turkey and Spain

Karakaya

Baer²

2019

Sociological Forum

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In this article, we analyze local Holocaust Remembrance Day (HRD) ceremonies promoted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) in Spain and Turkey. We investigate whether these memory practices have the potential to lead to a cosmopolitan engagement with the host countries’ own pasts. Focused on the same memorial events in highly contrasting and diverse national contexts, this article examines how supranational memory discourses are adopted and reinterpreted within the nation‐state framework. Our ethnographic observation of the commemorations and analysis of the speeches between 2011 and 2018 in Turkey and 2005 and 2018 in Spain show that the Spanish ceremony can be defined as porous and to a certain degree open to multivocality—given the participation of different mnemonic communities—while the Turkish one is sealed and does not allow for the possibility of disrupting its self‐congratulatory national memory narrative. Paradoxically, in both cases, especially in Turkey, the national legitimation profiles are bolstered by the universal frameworks that Holocaust memory provides. Even though memory travels transnationally, the nation‐state still is the most powerful translator of this past. This results in the rendition of pre‐Holocaust nostalgic pasts as a multicultural heaven where different groups, including the Jewish community, lived in harmony.

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The Voids of Sepharad: The Memory of the Holocaust in Spain

Cited by 33 publications

References 5 publications

Ghosts of the Holocaust in Franco’s mass graves: Cosmopolitan memories and the politics of “never again”

Ghosts of the Holocaust in Franco’s mass graves: Cosmopolitan memories and the politics of “never again”

The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions: An Everyday Perspective from Nahr el-Bared Camp

“Such Hatred Has Never Flourished on Our Soil”: The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Turkey and Spain

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