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Dan Michman: Shoah, Churbn, Cataclysm, Judeocide, Holocaust, Genocide (and more). On Terminology and Interpretation | |||
Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2014, 18:30 - 20:00 Dachfoyer des Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchivs 1010 Wien, Minoritenplatz 1
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Why do we nowadays use the terms ‚Holocaust‘ and ‚Shoah‘, although a host of other terms were used or proposed both initially and later on? What do these terms mean, where did they originate, and what do they designate? Are they synonyms or do their semantic fields differ? Are they legitimate or not? Why is there a competition between them (and with others)? And what have literature and the film industry to do with their dissemination? In short: do we indeed know what we mean when we speak about ‚the Holocaust‘? In this talk an attempt will be made to understand the complicated links between discourses of survivors and scholars, semantic changes, the impact of historical processes, ideological stances on the use of terminology – and the consequences regarding historical interpretation.
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