Vortrag: The Great War and Jewish Memory

The Great War shattered Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi’s celebrated distinction between history and memory in Jewish cultural life. The lecture argues that Jewish history and Jewish memory collided between 1914 and 1918 in ways which transformed both and created a new category which I term historical remembrance. Less the ›faith of fallen Jews‹, as Yerushalmi claims, historical remembrance is the practice of finding some meaning in the revolution in violence which erupted in 1914 and has continued to this day. An amalgam of the very old and the very new, Jewish thought and practice approached the terrors of industrialized warfare in striking and at times surprising ways.

Dr. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at the Yale University, New Haven. As specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century he is the author or co-author of a dozen books, including Rene Cassin et les droits de l’homme, co-authored with Antoine Prost, Fayard, Paris 2011, Socialism and the Challenge of War, Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912–18, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Reading 1974, The Great War and the British People, McMillan, New York 1984, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, and Remembering War: The Great War between History and Memory in the 20th Century, Yale University Press, New Haven 2006.

Vortrag in englischer Sprache!

Eine Kooperation mit dem Historischen Seminar der Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Datum

Montag, 3. März 2014, 18.15 Uhr

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