Holocaust Memory Transformations in Contemporary Contexts: An Introduction

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Notes

1 Matthew Mpoke Bigg, “Israel’s UN Envoy Criticized for Wearing Yellow Star of David,” The New York Times (Nov. 1, 2023): Section A, p. 5.

2 The White House, “Remarks by President Biden on the October 7th Terrorist Attacks and the Resilience of the State of Israel and its People:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/10/18/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-october-7th-terrorist-attacks-and-the-resilience-of-the-state-of-israel-and-its-people-tel-aviv-israel/#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20rationalizing%20it,Jewish%20people%20since%20the%20Holocaust (Oct. 18, 2023).

3 Charles Creitz, “Bibi Adviser Suggests Hamas Invasion Worse than 1930s Germany: 'Nazis Tried to Hide Their Crimes,’” Fox News:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/bibi-adviser-hamas-invasion-worse-1930s-germany-nazis-tried-hide-crimes (Oct. 27, 2023); Andrew Roberts, “What Makes Hamas Worse than the Nazis,” The Washington Free Beacon:

https://freebeacon.com/culture/what-makes-hamas-worse-than-the-nazis/ (Nov. 24, 2023).

4 Inbal Hannael, “No Limit to Lies: Mohamed Hadid Compares Israelis to Nazis,” Ynet: https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/hjti1zima (Oct. 29, 2023); “Colombia President Gustavo Petro compares Gaza siege to Nazism,” Buenos Aires Times: https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/colombia-president-gustavo-petro-compares-gaza-siege-to-nazism.phtml (Oct. 9, 2023).

5 Haidar Eid, “Gaza 2023: Our Warsaw Uprising Moment,” Aljazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/10/gaza-2023-our-warsaw-uprising-moment (Oct. 10 2023).

6 Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe and Bastiaan Willems, "Putin’s Abuse of History: Ukrainian ‘Nazis,’ ‘Genocide,’ and a Fake Threat Scenario," The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 35, no. 1 (2022): pp. 1–10.

7 Adam Parsons, "Ukraine War: Putin is a Modern-Day Hitler and Russia is Doomed to Suffer the same Fate as Nazi Germany, Says Zelenskyy's Most Trusted Security Adviser,” Sky News: https://news.sky.com/story/volodymyr-zelenskyys-most-trusted-security-adviser-says-all-of-ukraine-must-be-liberated-from-russian-invaders-12729556 (Oct. 25, 2022).

8 Rafael Medoff, “Why Hamas Can Rightly be Compared to Nazis: The Similarities are Undeniable,” New York Post:

https://nypost.com/2023/11/18/opinion/why-hamas-can-rightly-be-compared-to-nazis/ (Nov. 24, 2023).

9 Dina Porat, “Should We Compare the Hamas Assault to the Holocaust?” Haaretz:

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-10-23/ty-article-opinion/.premium/should-we-compare-the-hamas-assault-to-the-holocaust/0000018b-5cbb-d307-adbb-7dbb40b50000 (Oct. 23, 2023).

10 Omer Bartov, “What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide,” The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html (No. 10, 2023); John Benjamin, “The Real Danger of Using Holocaust Analogies Right Now,” Time Magazine: https://time.com/6336249/oct-7-gaza-holocaust-essay/ (Nov. 16, 2023); “Yad Vashem Chief Rejects Comparison Between Hamas Atrocities, Holocaust,” Times of Israel: https://www.timesofisrael.com/yad-vashem-chief-rejects-comparison-between-hamas-atrocities-holocaust/ (Nov. 23, 2023).

11 Mor Link, “The ‘Gaza Holocaust’: The Outrageous Framing of the War by the Arab Media,” INNS: The Institute for National Security Studies:

https://www.inss.org.il/social_media/the-gaza-holocaust-the-outrageous-framing-of-the-war-by-the-arab-media/ (Oct. 25, 2023).

12 Jeffrey C. Alexander, “On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The Holocaust from War Crime to Trauma Drama,” European Journal of Social Theory 5 (2002): pp. 5–85.

13 Aleida Assmann, “The Holocaust – A Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community,” in A. Assmann and S. Conrad, (eds.), Memory in a Global Age (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

14 Daniel Levy and Nathan Sznaider, “Memory Unbound: The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory,” European Journal of Social Theory 5, no.1 (2002): pp. 87–106.

15 Tony Judt, Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945 (Penguin, 2006).

16 Jelena Subotić, Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019); Jelena Subotić, "The Appropriation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Communist Eastern Europe," Global Crisis in Memory, the special collection of Modern Languages Open no. 1 (2020): p. 22.

17 Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, (eds.), Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age (New York: Berghahn Books, 2015).

18 Nurit Novis-Deutsch et al., Sites of Tension: Shifts in Holocaust Memory in Relation to Antisemitism and Political Contestation in Europe (Haifa: The Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education, 2023).