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Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust

Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust Dare to Compare Americanizing the Holocaust lilian friedberg For several centuries now, men of the white race have everywhere destroyed the past, stupidly, blindly, both at home and abroad. . . . The past once destroyed never returns. The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. Today the preservation of what little of it remains ought to become almost an obsession. We must put an end to the terrible uprootedness which European colonial methods always produce, even under their least cruel aspects. We must abstain, once victory is ours, from punishing the conquered enemy by uprooting him still further; seeing that it is neither possible nor desirable to exterminate him. Simone Weil, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind the dynamics of denial: uncle sam's willing executioners German-speaking Jewish writers have long felt comfortable expropriating images and analogies from the site of Native American identity in their literary imagination.1 Today, a growing sentiment of sympathy for the "vanishing American" in Germany has upped the ante in the identity-appropriations game, and German-speaking Jewish writers now appropriate Native American identity in the attempt to inflect their own historiography with an added http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Indian Quarterly University of Nebraska Press

Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust

Friedberg, Lilian
The American Indian Quarterly , Volume 24 (3) – Jan 6, 2000
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Dare to Compare Americanizing the Holocaust lilian friedberg For several centuries now, men of the white race have everywhere destroyed the past, stupidly, blindly, both at home and abroad. . . . The past once destroyed never returns. The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. Today the preservation of what little of it remains ought to become almost an obsession. We must put an end to the terrible uprootedness which European colonial methods always produce, even under their least cruel aspects. We must abstain, once victory is ours, from punishing the conquered enemy by uprooting him still further; seeing that it is neither possible nor desirable to exterminate him. Simone Weil, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind the dynamics of denial: uncle sam's willing executioners German-speaking Jewish writers have long felt comfortable expropriating images and analogies from the site of Native American identity in their literary imagination.1 Today, a growing sentiment of sympathy for the "vanishing American" in Germany has upped the ante in the identity-appropriations game, and German-speaking Jewish writers now appropriate Native American identity in the attempt to inflect their own historiography with an added

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Published: Jan 6, 2000

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