This paper asks what became of Primo Levi's testimonial function after his death. The first part investigates the literary objects (novels and comic books) produced in the wake of Levi's death, when ...fictionalized representations of him multiplied through different media. As a means of comparison, the question will be explored by taking into account a series of fictional works that feature another quintessential emblem of the Shoah: Anne Frank. The second part will instead examine Literature or Life by Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún, who rewrote and rearticulated Levi's words on the very day of the latter's suicide. Can testimonial function migrate between mortal bodies, like the royal dignitas, thus preserving itself beyond the ephemeral lives of individuals?
This article presents a feminist thematic reading of three diaries written by young women and girls during World War II. The diaries were written by Anna Frank, Hélène Berr, and Ruth Maier, and have ...not yet been comparatively studied. The thematic reading presented here has focused on four super-themes characterizing the diary-keeping of women during the Holocaust - love, writing, war, and the status of women.
What importance could the radical empiricism of William James have for the ordeal of Meyer Levin? Following the suppression of his staging of The Diary of Anne Frank , Levin decried the excision, in ...the authorized Broadway production, of key references to Anne’s budding Judaism and to the Jewish particularism of Holocaust atrocities. Because the Communist-influenced Broadway script emphasizes the wrongs implied by universal, rather than specific, expressions of tyranny, James’s philosophy anticipates, and perhaps even helps frame, Levin’s still-pertinent charge that generalization abets both Holocaust denial and efforts to disavow Jewish identity, particularism, and nationalism.
Kraft talks about writing Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar's story which was a chance to keep her memory alive. When she started helping Pick-Goslar, one of Anne Frank's best friends, write her ...memoir earlier this year, she knew they were in a race against time. Still razor sharp of mind, but increasingly frail of body at 93, she'd get tired after a couple of hours of talking. The task of co-writing Hannah's memoir is a life-changing responsibility. Every day people lose more eyewitness to the cruelty and carnage of the Holocaust. She is humbled by the opportunity to help keep her story alive in the world, especially now, when unfortunately, it feels more urgent than ever.
The Lucky Few Carlson, Elwood
2008, 2008-07-02
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Born during the Great Depression and World War Two (1929–1945) an entire generation has slipped between the cracks of history. These Lucky Few became the first American generation smaller than the ...one before them, and the luckiest generation of Americans ever. As children they experienced the most stable intact parental families in the nation’s history. Lucky Few women married earlier than any other generation of the century and helped give birth to the Baby Boom, yet also gained in education compared to earlier generations. Lucky Few men made the greatest gains of the century in schooling, earned veterans benefits like the Greatest Generation but served mostly in peacetime with only a fraction of the casualties, came closest to full employment, and spearheaded the trend toward earlier retirement. Even in retirement/old age the Lucky Few remain in the right place at the right time. Here is their story, and the story of how they have affected other recent generations of Americans before and since. 'Carlson’s work provides an examination of a previously neglected generation while at the same time teaching us how important generational location in general is in determining life chances. It will be a treasured work for the scholars in this area'. Steve H. Murdock, Director, U.S. Census Bureau 'Carlson makes the issue of a cohort and cohort analysis come alive'. Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Texas AM University 'The richly documented account of the varying fates of American generations, based chiefly on IPUMS data, provides a fresh perspective on the history of the United States in the twentieth century. This book will become a classic of historical sociology'. Steven Ruggles, Director, IPUMS Project 'As a member of the Lucky Few generation, I salute Woody Carlson's masterful analysis of this nearly forgotten cohort of
This study considers Italian filmmaking during the Fascist era and offers an original and revealing approach to the interwar years. Steven Ricci directly confronts a long-standing dilemma faced by ...cultural historians: while made during a period of totalitarian government, these films are neither propagandistic nor openly "Fascist." Instead, the Italian Fascist regime attempted to build ideological consensus by erasing markers of class and regional difference and by circulating terms for an imaginary national identity.Cinema and Fascisminvestigates the complex relationship between the totalitarian regime and Italian cinema. It looks at the films themselves, the industry, and the role of cinema in daily life, and offers new insights into this important but neglected period in cinema history.
In May of 1944, American airman Gerald E. Sorensen was shot down over Nazi occupied Belgium. The Belgian Resistance recovered Sorensen and sheltered him in the home of the Abeels family. Friendship ...between Sorensen and the Abeels blossomed and they came to consider each other as family. The Abeels were active in the Resistance and Sorensen ultimately volunteered to join his Belgian brother Roger Abeels in the Secret Army. On the day of the liberation Sorensen and Abeels were killed in combat with the Nazis, fighting side-by-side.
This book tells Sorensen's story: his upbringing, education, marriage and military service; his evasion of capture and kinship with the Abeels; his experience in the Resistance; his final combat and his impact on those he left behind. But this book is more than a biography. It recounts the courageous struggle of the Belgians who risked everything to save Allied airmen and combat the Nazi occupation of their country and explains why Sorensen and Abeels are extraordinary symbols of the enduring values at the heart of today's transatlantic alliance.
Hawthorne's "My Kinsman Major Molineux" is important for Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer and within a context evoking the alleged Stalinist suppression of Meyer Levin's staging of the Anne Frank ...diary. These texts and contexts merge, in The Ghost Writer and The Prague Orgy, to highlight narrator Nathan Zuckerman's contempt for Communist repression of the arts following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Existing studies of The Ghost Writer recognize the pertinence, for that narrative, of Levin's protests against the muting of Judaism in the 1955 Broadway production of the Anne Frank diary. As authorized by Otto Frank, Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich dramatized the diary. Because of the seemingly disparate but ultimately related nature of such contexts and concerns in The Ghost Writer, an outline of these themes and emphases follows. While it contains no guarantee of precise fidelity to the complexity or ordering of ideas in the mind of Zuckerman-or of Roth, creator of the younger and older Zuckerman in The Ghost Writer.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
This study explains the rise and evaluates the strength of the National Socialist Students' Association (NSDStB) during the whole period of its existence from 1926 to 1945.
Originally published in ...1985.
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