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Introduction

Rethinking the Muselmann in Nazi Concentration Camps and Ghettos: History, Social Life, and Representation

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1 Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).

2 Zdzisław Ryn and Stanisław Kłodziński, “An der Grenze zwischen Leben und Tod: Eine Studie über die Erscheinung des ‘Muselmanns’ im Konzentrationslager,” in Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, (ed.), Die Auschwitz-Hefte: Texte der polnischen Zeitschrift “Pzregląd Lekarski” über historische, psychische und medizinische Aspekte des Lebens und Sterbens in Auschwitz, Band 1 (Hamburg: Rogner und Bernhard, 1994), pp. 89–154.

3 Michael Becker and Dennis Bock, “‘Muselmänner’ und Häftlingsgesellschaften: Ein Beitrag zur Sozialgeschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager,” Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, vol. 55 (2015): pp. 133–175; Manuela Consonni, “Primo Levi, Robert Antelme, and the Body of the Muselmann,” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, vol. 7, no. 2 (June 2009): pp. 243–259; Mona Körte, “Stummer Zeuge: Der ‘Muselmann’ in Erinnerung und Erzählung,” in Silke Segler-Messner, Monika Neuhofer, and Peter Kuon, (eds.), Vom Zeugnis zur Fiktion. Repräsentation von Lagerwirklichkeit und Shoah in der französischen Literatur nach 1945 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 97–110; Sharon B. Oster, “Impossible Holocaust Metaphors: The Muselmann,” Prooftexts, vol. 34, no. 3 (Fall 2014): pp. 302–348; Lissa Skitolsky, “Tracing Theory on the Body of the ‘Walking Dead’: Der Muselmann and the Course of Holocaust Studies,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 30, no. 2 (2012): pp. 74–90; Glenn Sujo, “Muselmann: A Distilled Image of the Lager?,” in Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman, (eds.), Concentrationary Memories: Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture (London: I. B. Tauris, 2015), pp. 133–157; Kathrin Wittler, “‘Muselmann’: Anmerkungen zur Geschichte einer Bezeichnung,” Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, vol. 61, no. 12 (2012): pp. 1045–1056.

4 See for example Leona Toker, “The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga,” in Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019).

5 Maja Suderland and Michaela Christ, “National Socialism as a Research Topic in German-Language Sociology: Thoughts on a Hesitant Development,” The Journal of Holocaust Research, vol. 33, no. 3 (2019): pp. 191–211, here p. 211.

6 Michael Becker and Dennis Bock, “Muselmänner in Nazi Concentration Camps: Thinking Masculinity at the Extremes,” in Björn Krondorfer and Ovidiu Creanga, (eds.), The Holocaust and Masculinities: Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men (New York: SUNY Press, 2020), pp. 129–146, here p. 143.

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