Day of remembrance or day of forgetting? Or, why Britain does not need a Holocaust memorial day

Patterns of Prejudice

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 53-59

  Stone, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective memory; Commemoration; Holocaust; Memorial day

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034364958     PISSN: 0031322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/003132200128810991     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1989), 1.
2. Tony Kushner, The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination (Oxford: Blackwell 1994).
3. See Adrian Gregory, The Silence of Memory (Oxford: Berg 1994).
4. See James E. Young, 'When a day remembers: a performative history of Yom Hashoah', in The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 1993), 263-81.
5. Though this is hardly unproblematic: see Peter Novick, The Holocaust and Collective Memory: The American Experience (London: Bloomsbury 2000) and Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (London: Verso 2000).
6. Though this is hardly unproblematic: see Peter Novick, The Holocaust and Collective Memory: The American Experience (London: Bloomsbury 2000) and Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (London: Verso 2000).
7. Connerton, 5, 70. Cf. Jean-François Lyotard, 'Universal history and cultural differences', in The Lyotard Reader, ed. Andrew Benjamin (Oxford: Blackwell 1993), 314-23; Michael Gilsenan, Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society (London: I. B. Tauris 1996).
8. Connerton, 5, 70. Cf. Jean-François Lyotard, 'Universal history and cultural differences', in The Lyotard Reader, ed. Andrew Benjamin (Oxford: Blackwell 1993), 314-23; Michael Gilsenan, Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society (London: I. B. Tauris 1996).
9. Michael Stürmer, 'History in a land without history', in Forever in the Shadow of Hitler? Original Documents of the Historikerstreit, the Controversy concerning the Singularity of the Holocaust, eds James Knowlton and Truett Cates (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press 1993), 16-17. See also Charles S. Maier, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1988), and Mary Fulbrook, German National Identity after the Holocaust (Cambridge: Polity Press 1999).
10. Michael Stürmer, 'History in a land without history', in Forever in the Shadow of Hitler? Original Documents of the Historikerstreit, the Controversy concerning the Singularity of the Holocaust, eds James Knowlton and Truett Cates (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press 1993), 16-17. See also Charles S. Maier, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1988), and Mary Fulbrook, German National Identity after the Holocaust (Cambridge: Polity Press 1999).
11. Michael Stürmer, 'History in a land without history', in Forever in the Shadow of Hitler? Original Documents of the Historikerstreit, the Controversy concerning the Singularity of the Holocaust, eds James Knowlton and Truett Cates (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press 1993), 16-17. See also Charles S. Maier, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1988), and Mary Fulbrook, German National Identity after the Holocaust (Cambridge: Polity Press 1999).
12. George Monbiot, Guardian, 14 October 1999; as of 26 July 2000 the government is reported to be getting cold feet about this project.
13. Young, The Texture of Memory, 21, 5.
14. See the essays in Andrew Benjamin, Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (London: Routledge 1991), and Benjamin, Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (London: Routledge 1997).
15. See the essays in Andrew Benjamin, Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde (London: Routledge 1991), and Benjamin, Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (London: Routledge 1997).