Search for dissertations about: "Holocaust memory"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words Holocaust memory.
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1. A Mention to Those not Mentioned : Yizkor Books and Holocaust Memory 1943–2008
Abstract : Yizkor books are communal memorial books commemorating Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust, produced as a result of communal activity. This study analyses the production and function of Yizkor books. READ MORE
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2. The Memory of Meanings : The Images of Jewish-Catholic Relations in Interwar Lublin in Oral Histories
Abstract : This work explores narratives of Jewish-Catholic relations in interwar Lublin, as recalled by its Jewish and Catholic inhabitants by the end of their lives. Thus, it concerns both memory and intergroup relations and seeks to understand the attitudes towards the religious Other. READ MORE
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3. Children in the Holocaust : dealing with affects and memory images in trauma and generational linking
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4. A Rhetoric of Ambivalence : The Memory World of the Nazi Perpetrator in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones
Abstract : In Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (Les Bienveillantes, 2006), a discrepancy is found between the historical account and the personal story, indicating the major ambivalence that arises from the creation of a historical world (noesis) as opposed to a fictional world (poiesis). This major ambivalence is connected to a range of minor ambivalences (and other elements of uncertainty) that are related to the novel’s treatment of the historical period of World War II in ways that unsettle and defamiliarize the typical standards of Holocaust representations. READ MORE
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5. "Chorus of the Saved" : Constructing the Holocaust Survivor in Swedish Public Discourse, 1943-1966
Abstract : In this dissertation I examine how the Holocaust survivor has been constructed in Swedish public discourse during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. This is done using a Foucauldian-inspired genealogical method through which an eclectic collection of sources—newsreels, films, radio programs, television programs and newspaper articles—is analyzed. READ MORE