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  • Auschwitz
    Shulamith Lev-Aladgem

    Marking Evil, 05/2015, Letnik: 21
    Book Chapter

    The discourse of the Holocaust, like any discourse, is dynamic and transformative. The growing distance from the historical moment accelerates this process, which is currently generating new and contested Holocaust narratives. This ongoing making of meaning out of the term “ Holocaust” is also due to its explosive evocative power, encapsulating the incommensurate and ultimate cruelty. The discursive appropriation of the Holocaust has expanded lately , taking a new global direction that focuses on new forms of suffering and genocides. This new ethics and practice of the Holocaust constitutes it as a supervalue appropriated worldwide for self and communal identity