' book is an excellent reconstruction of the history of the black population in Buenos Aires. Eve... more ' book is an excellent reconstruction of the history of the black population in Buenos Aires. Every chapter marshalls new facts and delivers them with marvelous verbal economy yet unimpeachable logic ... No other study so thoroughly documents the successes, the failures, the problems, and the cultural impact of an Afro-American group within the context of its local society.''
What has Holocaust Studies brought to the study of memory, and, conversely, how has theoretical w... more What has Holocaust Studies brought to the study of memory, and, conversely, how has theoretical work on the Holocaust been inflected by Memory Studies? Focusing on witness testimony, we argue that the theoretical and philosophical efforts to grasp and define its contours have provoked a radical rethinking of the workings of memory and transmission: in particular, a foregrounding of embodiment, affect and silence. Yet we caution against a hyperbolic emphasis on trauma and the breakdown of speech. We find that the very aporias that have made the Holocaust a touchstone for the study of twentieth-century memory have engendered two distinctive interpretive uses of witness testimony — one linked to a troubling idiom of uniqueness and exceptionalism, potentially supporting nationalist and identity politics, the other, to cosmopolitan or transnational memory cultures able to sustain efforts towards the global attainment of human rights.
:This study focuses on the life histories of an Afro-Brazilian, a Sierra Leone Creole, and an Aus... more :This study focuses on the life histories of an Afro-Brazilian, a Sierra Leone Creole, and an Austrian Jew—persons whose experiences help us to refine our understanding of the connections between individual identity, perceptions of prejudice and discrimination, and the variety of responses to exclusion and domination.
Page 1. INTERPRETING AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE PAST DECADE, 1960-197... more Page 1. INTERPRETING AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE PAST DECADE, 1960-1970 Leo Spitzer ... economic history. But little work has been completed in the area of African intellectual history, surely one of the most fascinating and ...
... He returned home the same year and set up private practice as a doctor at 15 Pultney Street, ... more ... He returned home the same year and set up private practice as a doctor at 15 Pultney Street, Freetown.49 His two brothers of the first marriage followed different careers. John St HawleyEkundayo, the eldest, followed the career of his father as a businessman. ...
This article considers the important role of archival photographs in the work of historians, arti... more This article considers the important role of archival photographs in the work of historians, artists and writers of the generation after the Holocaust. Powerful "points of memory" linking past and present, memory and postmemory, individual remembrance and cultural recall, photographs can offer evidence of past crimes and function as haunting specters that enable an affective visceral connection to the past. And yet, photographs may also be limited and flawed historical documents, promising more than they can actually reveal. The article argues that such ambiguous evidence may be a resource for historians seeking to grasp and transmit the past's emotional truth. Au mois de juin 1942, un officier allemand s'avance vers un jeune homme et lui dit: "Pardon monsieur, où se trouve la place de l'Etoile?" Le jeune homme désigne le côté gauche de sa poitrine. [In June 1942, a German officer approaches a young man and asks him: "Excuse me, sir, but where is the Place de l'Etoile?" The young man points to his left lapel.] (Modiano 12) This is the only photograph of my parents Carl and Lottle Hirsch, taken during the war years and it is tiny, 2.5 × 3.5 cmm, about the size of a 35 mm negative, with unevenly cut edges (figure 1). I have always loved this image of a stylish young couple-newlyweds walking confidently down an active urban street. The more difficult it was to make out the details of the faded and slightly spotted black-and-white image, the more mysterious and enticing it became to me over the years. In it, my mother is wearing a flared light-colored half-length coat and attractive leather or suede shoes with heels. She is carrying a dark purse under her arm. My father wears well-cut pants and dark leather shoes, and a tweed jacket that looks slightly too small. Details of their facial expressions are difficult to read, but their strides appear animated, matching, their arms interlaced, my mother's hands in her pockets. The picture must have been taken by one of the street photographers on the "Herrengasse" (Strada Iancu Flondor
Page 1. INTERPRETING AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE PAST DECADE, 1960-197... more Page 1. INTERPRETING AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE PAST DECADE, 1960-1970 Leo Spitzer ... economic history. But little work has been completed in the area of African intellectual history, surely one of the most fascinating and ...
International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1973
... They acted hastily, prompted by the knowledge that he wrote for the Negro Worker (banned in m... more ... They acted hastily, prompted by the knowledge that he wrote for the Negro Worker (banned in many colonies), that the Nigerian government had deported him for trade union agitation, and that he was collecting funds under the auspices of the ... ITA WALLACE-JOHNSON 427 ...
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2001
... a native language for us; we were taught in Spanish in our schools; we learned about Bolivian... more ... a native language for us; we were taught in Spanish in our schools; we learned about Bolivian history and about Murillo, Bolivar, Sucre--heroes ... At one point during that 'revolution,' when one side was trying to bomb various public buildings, my parents hid my sister Elly and me ...
This essay surveys recent scholarship on the history of ethnicity in Latin America and the Atlant... more This essay surveys recent scholarship on the history of ethnicity in Latin America and the Atlantic World, exploring ways in which Jewish, Japanese and Middle Eastern minorities have transacted nationhood, identity and integration. This historiography of ethnicity offers compelling paths for understanding how transnational identities are negotiated. These include the analysis of patterns of slaveholding by Jewish communities on both sides of the Atlantic and the ways in which these communities understood blackness; the use of memory in understanding experiences of immigration; the relationships between national foreign policy and domestic ethnic politics; and the extent to which the issues of negotiating identity and asserting ethnicity are shared by a variety of immigrant ethnic groups. Together, this body of literature reflects the substantial ways in which ethnic histories interplay with other facets of national histories and with the process of historical analysis.
' book is an excellent reconstruction of the history of the black population in Buenos Aires. Eve... more ' book is an excellent reconstruction of the history of the black population in Buenos Aires. Every chapter marshalls new facts and delivers them with marvelous verbal economy yet unimpeachable logic ... No other study so thoroughly documents the successes, the failures, the problems, and the cultural impact of an Afro-American group within the context of its local society.''
What has Holocaust Studies brought to the study of memory, and, conversely, how has theoretical w... more What has Holocaust Studies brought to the study of memory, and, conversely, how has theoretical work on the Holocaust been inflected by Memory Studies? Focusing on witness testimony, we argue that the theoretical and philosophical efforts to grasp and define its contours have provoked a radical rethinking of the workings of memory and transmission: in particular, a foregrounding of embodiment, affect and silence. Yet we caution against a hyperbolic emphasis on trauma and the breakdown of speech. We find that the very aporias that have made the Holocaust a touchstone for the study of twentieth-century memory have engendered two distinctive interpretive uses of witness testimony — one linked to a troubling idiom of uniqueness and exceptionalism, potentially supporting nationalist and identity politics, the other, to cosmopolitan or transnational memory cultures able to sustain efforts towards the global attainment of human rights.
:This study focuses on the life histories of an Afro-Brazilian, a Sierra Leone Creole, and an Aus... more :This study focuses on the life histories of an Afro-Brazilian, a Sierra Leone Creole, and an Austrian Jew—persons whose experiences help us to refine our understanding of the connections between individual identity, perceptions of prejudice and discrimination, and the variety of responses to exclusion and domination.
Page 1. INTERPRETING AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE PAST DECADE, 1960-197... more Page 1. INTERPRETING AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE PAST DECADE, 1960-1970 Leo Spitzer ... economic history. But little work has been completed in the area of African intellectual history, surely one of the most fascinating and ...
... He returned home the same year and set up private practice as a doctor at 15 Pultney Street, ... more ... He returned home the same year and set up private practice as a doctor at 15 Pultney Street, Freetown.49 His two brothers of the first marriage followed different careers. John St HawleyEkundayo, the eldest, followed the career of his father as a businessman. ...
This article considers the important role of archival photographs in the work of historians, arti... more This article considers the important role of archival photographs in the work of historians, artists and writers of the generation after the Holocaust. Powerful "points of memory" linking past and present, memory and postmemory, individual remembrance and cultural recall, photographs can offer evidence of past crimes and function as haunting specters that enable an affective visceral connection to the past. And yet, photographs may also be limited and flawed historical documents, promising more than they can actually reveal. The article argues that such ambiguous evidence may be a resource for historians seeking to grasp and transmit the past's emotional truth. Au mois de juin 1942, un officier allemand s'avance vers un jeune homme et lui dit: "Pardon monsieur, où se trouve la place de l'Etoile?" Le jeune homme désigne le côté gauche de sa poitrine. [In June 1942, a German officer approaches a young man and asks him: "Excuse me, sir, but where is the Place de l'Etoile?" The young man points to his left lapel.] (Modiano 12) This is the only photograph of my parents Carl and Lottle Hirsch, taken during the war years and it is tiny, 2.5 × 3.5 cmm, about the size of a 35 mm negative, with unevenly cut edges (figure 1). I have always loved this image of a stylish young couple-newlyweds walking confidently down an active urban street. The more difficult it was to make out the details of the faded and slightly spotted black-and-white image, the more mysterious and enticing it became to me over the years. In it, my mother is wearing a flared light-colored half-length coat and attractive leather or suede shoes with heels. She is carrying a dark purse under her arm. My father wears well-cut pants and dark leather shoes, and a tweed jacket that looks slightly too small. Details of their facial expressions are difficult to read, but their strides appear animated, matching, their arms interlaced, my mother's hands in her pockets. The picture must have been taken by one of the street photographers on the "Herrengasse" (Strada Iancu Flondor
Page 1. INTERPRETING AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE PAST DECADE, 1960-197... more Page 1. INTERPRETING AFRICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE PAST DECADE, 1960-1970 Leo Spitzer ... economic history. But little work has been completed in the area of African intellectual history, surely one of the most fascinating and ...
International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1973
... They acted hastily, prompted by the knowledge that he wrote for the Negro Worker (banned in m... more ... They acted hastily, prompted by the knowledge that he wrote for the Negro Worker (banned in many colonies), that the Nigerian government had deported him for trade union agitation, and that he was collecting funds under the auspices of the ... ITA WALLACE-JOHNSON 427 ...
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2001
... a native language for us; we were taught in Spanish in our schools; we learned about Bolivian... more ... a native language for us; we were taught in Spanish in our schools; we learned about Bolivian history and about Murillo, Bolivar, Sucre--heroes ... At one point during that 'revolution,' when one side was trying to bomb various public buildings, my parents hid my sister Elly and me ...
This essay surveys recent scholarship on the history of ethnicity in Latin America and the Atlant... more This essay surveys recent scholarship on the history of ethnicity in Latin America and the Atlantic World, exploring ways in which Jewish, Japanese and Middle Eastern minorities have transacted nationhood, identity and integration. This historiography of ethnicity offers compelling paths for understanding how transnational identities are negotiated. These include the analysis of patterns of slaveholding by Jewish communities on both sides of the Atlantic and the ways in which these communities understood blackness; the use of memory in understanding experiences of immigration; the relationships between national foreign policy and domestic ethnic politics; and the extent to which the issues of negotiating identity and asserting ethnicity are shared by a variety of immigrant ethnic groups. Together, this body of literature reflects the substantial ways in which ethnic histories interplay with other facets of national histories and with the process of historical analysis.
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