Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era

Taylor & Francis

Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust EraThe Ethics of Never Again\nAuthor(s): Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472448941, 978-1472448941\nSynopsis\nTo forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with other narratives of victimization that demand equal treatment. Are there crimes that must be forgotten and others that should be remembered?\n\nIn this book the authors examine the effects of a globalized Holocaust culture on the ways in which individuals and groups understand the moral and political significance of their respective histories of extreme political violence. Do such transnational memories facilitate or hamper the task of coming to terms with and overcoming ""