Utopique et impensable. A propos d’un article de Hans Mommsen publié en 1983

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In 1983, Hans Mommsen published an essay on the genocide of the Jews in Geschichte und Gesellschaft, in an issue devoted to ‘the history of Jews in Germany between assimilation and persecution’. Three years later, an expanded version of the essay was issued in English translation, in a collection published by the German Historical Institute in London.

We all know the argument of this essay and its place in the historiography, so I will not summarize it. What I want to talk about is the status of the essay as a text: specifically, how the German and English versions offer some semantic discordances or gaps through which we can intrude interpretation. I want to suggest that the accidents of translation can be mobilized into productive dialogue.

The original German title of Mommsen’s essay was ‘Die Realisierung des Utopischen’. However, in the course of its publication in English, this came to be translated as ‘The Realisation of the Unthinkable’ – in German this would be ‘des Undenkb...

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