Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century

David M. Seymour is Lecturer at the City Law School at City University London.Mercedes Camino is Professor of History at Lancaster University.

• Introduction: Jews, Bolsheviks and the Shoah Between Amnesia and Anamnesis[Mercedes Camino]Part I: Holocaust Memory, Globalization and Anti-Semitism1. Holocaust Memory: Between Universal and Particular[David M. Seymour]2. Remembrance and Beyond: Holocaust Memory in Lived Time [Tracey Skillington]3. Instrumentalization of Holocaust Memory and False Historical Analogies [Andreas Musolff ]Part II: Monuments and Sites of Memory4. The Jewish Cemetery of Währing, Vienna: Competing Voices and Contested Discourses in the Austrian Restoration Debates[Tim Corbett]5. Through the Window: An Analysis of the United States Holocaust Museum Through the Theory of Zygmunt Bauman[Nicci Shall]6. Contesting Memories in Text and Image: Discursive Representation and Cognitive Construal[Małgorzata Fabiszak]7. Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Postcommunist Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland [Joanna Beata Michlic]Part III: Media and Education8. Contesting the Memory of Frank Beyer’s Jacob the Liar (1974)[Elizabeth Ward]9. "One Day Will Bear Witness to It Like a Fossil": Echoes of the Past in the Language of the Present: Heartbeat Detector / La Question Humaine (2007)[Helen Jones]10. Suppression of the Nazi Past, Coded Languages, and Discourses of Silence: Applying the Discourse-Historical Approach to Post-War Anti-Semitism in Austria[Ruth Wodak]11. The "Feminisation of Fascism" and National Identity Construction in Germany and Austria After 1945[Karin Stögner]Part IV: Personal, Familial and Collective Remembrance12. "It Could All Have Been Much Worse": Benedikt Kautsky’s Post-War Response to the Shoah[Lars Fischer]13. The Discursive Construction of the Stolper Steine Memorial Project: Official, Educational and Familial Meanings[David Hanauer]EpilogueEpilogue: Family Commemoration, Lodz 2012-13[Naomi Tadmor]

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