Antisemitism and Holocaust Remembrance
Juliane Wetzel examines the relationship between antisemitism and Holocaust remembrance. She offers an explanation for the persistence of antisemitism after 1945. Wetzel discusses that despite a taboo against open antisemitism, precisely because of Auschwitz, feelings of guilt led to the phenomenon of antisemitism – so called secondary antisemitism – exposing a failure to come to terms with the past and resulting in Holocaust denial and the minimisation of the Holocaust. The trivialisation of the Holocaust by comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and antisemitic tropes such as “Jews talk too much about the Holocaust”, as well as the reversal of perpetrators and victims in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have become a widespread phenomenon across Europe. The Middle East conflict has become a backdrop for the projection of antisemitic sentiments, often related to the Holocaust. These feelings can be expressed even by those who present themselves as anti-antisemites and anti-racists. This leads to challenges in Holocaust education, even more so in classrooms with a significant number of students with migrant backgrounds whose parents came to Europe after 1945. Myths about the Holocaust are prominent not only in Arab media but also in the Internet. Wetzel highlights the difficulty of respecting the singularity of the Holocaust with regard to other atrocities and totalitarian regimes.
das kommt jetzt wirklich nur aus der muslimischen Welt
In der explorativen Phase des noch nicht abgeschlossenen Forschungsprojekts Antisemitismus bei Jugendlichen im Kontext von Migration und sozialer Exklusion fuhrten wir im Sommer 2008 sieben Gruppendiskussionen mit Jugendlichen und acht Einzelinterviews mit Lehrer/innen und Schulsozialarbeiter/innen an Haupt- und Realschulen einer norddeutschen Grosstadt durch. An zwei Gruppendiskussionen nahmen jeweils 10 Schulerinnen und Schuler der Klassenstufe 6, an vier Gruppendiskussionen jeweils 8 bis 10 Schulerinnen und Schuler der Klassenstufen 9 und 10 teil. Da wir u.a. die uns plausibel erscheinende, von Barbara Schauble und Albert Scherr vertretene These einer migrationsbedingten, auf unterschiedlichen Differenzkonstruktionen basierenden Pluralisierung antisemitischer Auserungsformen im lokalen Raum empirisch prufen wollen, wahlten wir – die Kunstlichkeit herkunftsbezogener Sortierungen in Kauf nehmend – die Gruppen so aus, dass sie sich nach Herkunftskontexten unterschieden (jugendliche Spataussiedler, Jugendliche mit turkischem und arabischem Migrationshintergrund, einheimische Jugendliche).
Elemental interplay: the production, circulation and deposition of Bronze Age metalwork in Britain and Ireland
Abstract This paper considers how people were compellingly engaged with, and drew upon, their elemental world in the Bronze Age (c. 2000 – 800 bc). It takes into account the production, circulation and deposition of metalwork and presents a number of themes concerned with the social construction of objects, places and people in the Bronze Age, while exploring how elements are drawn upon to facilitate this. The case study focuses on evidence from Britain and Ireland, although the interpretative themes presented can be applied to a wider geographical dataset. In particular, it considers how elements are interplayed in order to bring about and articulate wider social and material transformations taking place in the Bronze Age.