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Retheorizing the Holocaust

Retheorizing the Holocaust Paul B. Reitter Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 18, Number 2, Winter 2000, pp. 110-115 (Review) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2000.0018 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/472793/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:54 GMT from JHU Libraries SHOFAR Winter 2000 Vol. 18, No.2 Review Essay Paul B. Reitter German Department University of California, Berkeley History and Memory after Auschwitz, by Dominick LaCapra (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998),214 pp. $15.95. Holocaust studies is difficult to define. It has, of course, a unifying referent: the Holo­ caust. But its constitutive feature seems to lie elsewhere. After all, historical analyses of the Holocaust's causes often do not belong in the disciplinary category Holocaust studies. Nor is methodology its characteristic component. For Holocaust studies includes a variety ofperspectives: philosophical, historical, sociological, literary critical, psychological. What, then, gives Holocaust studies its sense of coherence? Perhaps all the disparate intellectual undertakings that comprise it are bound together by their shared concern with questions of representation. Indeed, Holocaust studies has focused on the theoretical problems with which historians of the Holocaust must reckon, and on public and aesthetic processes of remembering trauma and memorializing catastrophe, as well http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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Paul B. Reitter Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 18, Number 2, Winter 2000, pp. 110-115 (Review) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2000.0018 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/472793/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:54 GMT from JHU Libraries SHOFAR Winter 2000 Vol. 18, No.2 Review Essay Paul B. Reitter German Department University of California, Berkeley History and Memory after Auschwitz, by Dominick LaCapra (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1998),214 pp. $15.95. Holocaust studies is difficult to define. It has, of course, a unifying referent: the Holo­ caust. But its constitutive feature seems to lie elsewhere. After all, historical analyses of the Holocaust's causes often do not belong in the disciplinary category Holocaust studies. Nor is methodology its characteristic component. For Holocaust studies includes a variety ofperspectives: philosophical, historical, sociological, literary critical, psychological. What, then, gives Holocaust studies its sense of coherence? Perhaps all the disparate intellectual undertakings that comprise it are bound together by their shared concern with questions of representation. Indeed, Holocaust studies has focused on the theoretical problems with which historians of the Holocaust must reckon, and on public and aesthetic processes of remembering trauma and memorializing catastrophe, as well

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish StudiesPurdue University Press

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