Four Pitfalls West and East: Universalization, Double Genocide, Obfuscation and Competitive Martyrdom as New Forms of Holocaust Negation
Four Pitfalls West and East: Universalization, Double Genocide, Obfuscation and Competitive Martyrdom as New Forms of Holocaust Negation
Author(s): Michael ShafirSubject(s): History of ideas, Social history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Editura Hasefer
Keywords: Holocaust negationism; Double Genocide theory; Competitive Martyrdom; Holocaust Obfuscation; collective memory; traumatic collective experience;
Summary/Abstract: There are four new forms of negationism. The first (Universalization of the Holocaust) knows no geographic boundaries. The other three – the Double Genocide theory, Holocaust Obfuscation and Competitive Martyrdom – are encountered mainly in the former communist countries of East Central Europe. This study focuses mainly on the latter three. Examples from Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Serbia illustrate this revised attempt of negationism taxonomy.
Journal: Revista de Istorie a Evreilor din Romania
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 4+5(20+21)
- Page Range: 443-475
- Page Count: 33
- Language: English
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