Wir Sklavenhalter, Teil II
Lassen Sie mich raten: Als Sie zum ersten Mal die Frage „Wie viele Sklaven halten Sie?“ lasen, haben Sie sie spontan und unwillkürlich metaphorisch verstanden. Oder wie mir ein …
Archiv für März 2016
Macht und Missbrauch
Mit der Auszeichnung von „Spotlight“ zum besten Film bei der diesjährigen Oscar-Verleihung ist die Aufklärung von Missbrauchsstrukturen in die Aufmerksamkeit einer globalen…
Von der Repräsentation zur Resonanz
Immer öfter wird derzeit die Krise der Demokratie beschworen. Eine rasch wachsende und kaum zu überblickende Fülle an politikwissenschaftlicher Literatur fragt, ob diese noch zu r…
Chronik des Monats Februar 2016
1.2. – UNO. Generalsekretär Ban Ki Moon fordert den Iran und Saudi-Arabien auf, ihren Einfluss geltend zu machen, um die Lage im Nahen Osten zu beruhigen. Beide sollten „Realismus, Verantwortung und Kompromisse“ in ihre Beziehungen bringen. – Am 4.2. werden den Vereinten Nationen auf einer Geberkonferenz in London Gelder in Höhe von insgesamt neun Mrd.
A Long History of Faith-Based Welfare in Australia: Origins and Impact
In a nation where governments and churches have collaborated in the delivery of welfare services since 1788, such faith-based welfare was seen as normative rather than problematic. Indeed most Australians would struggle to imagine a welfare system tha…
The Politics of Nation-Building: Making of Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities
10.1080/00905992.2016.1146242<br/>Harris Mylonas
Surviving as Writer and as Witness, or Why Primo Levi Did Not Want to Be Called a ‘Survivor‘
<span class=“paragraphSection“>This article examines the profound reticence towards the concept ‘survivor in the works of Primo Levi. Juxtaposing two crucial moments in his writings, it focuses on Levi s self-image as a survivor in his first book <span style=“font-style:italic;“>Se questo è un uomo</span> (1946) and his last essay collection <span style=“font-style:italic;“>I sommersi e i salvati</span> (1986) by analysing their discursive and literary strategies. This leads to a closer look at Levi’s treatment of the term survivor and its application in later years. His understanding of shame and guilt in the ‘grey zone’ of the Lagers stands in sharp contrast to the 1980s zeitgeist’s connotations of the term survivor. While being called a survivor became for some a praiseworthy attribute, for Levi it was, rather, a reminder of the moral bankruptcy of having survived in the grey zone. Levi must be understood as a representative of a generation coping with survival while standing outside both major discourses: he neither took part in a particular Jewish understanding of survival as ‘She’erit ha-Peletah‘ (‘surviving remnant’) nor did he participate in a general memorial culture that altogether overlooked the problematic aspect of survival. Instead he insisted on the moral complexity of his situation.</span>
Conceptions of Comradeship: Hans H. Pinkus and the Nazification of the Reichsvereinigung ehemaliger Kriegsgefangener*
<span class=“paragraphSection“>This article examines the relationship between Hans H. Pinkus, a prominent German Jew, and the Reichsvereinigung ehemaliger Kriegsgefangener (ReK), the largest association of former German prisoners of the First World War. Pinkus’s surrender in August 1914 called his soldierly virtue into question and threatened to confirm stereotypes of Jewish cowardice. Military surrender carried a stigma, and Pinkus was counted among the former prisoners who sought to redeem their image with the general public and the community of German veterans. Drawing on Pinkus’s correspondence with the ReK, the article chronicles his influential role in the organization’s development and his marginalization following Hitler’s rise to power. An analysis of Pinkus’s involvement in and removal from the ReK both complements and complicates earlier work on Jewish war veterans, which has largely focused on the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten. Pinkus’s experiences as a member of the ReK demonstrate how many German veterans came to accept the ‘social death’ of loyal Jewish comrades despite holding no antisemitic views. The experiences of surrender, captivity, and the post-war struggle for respect influenced the manner in which the ReK rationalized the removal of Pinkus from its membership. If Pinkus’s expulsion made integration into the veterans‘ community a possibility, the ReK was willing to sacrifice one of its most dedicated members for the sake of securing a place in Hitler’s ‘community of the front’.</span>
Authorial and Editorial Voices in Translation 1 – Collaborative Relationships between Authors, Translators, and Performers / Authorial and Editorial Voices in Translation 2 – Editorial and Publishing Practices
10.1080/14781700.2016.1151822<br/>Carole Birkan-Berz
Corrigendum
10.1080/09557571.2016.1161262<br/>