Afterword
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F23%3A10478590" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/23:10478590 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783216-012" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783216-012</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110783216-012" target="_blank" >10.1515/9783110783216-012</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Afterword
Original language description
For many decades, Jewish life in Europe was a synonym for the Holocaust, and post-war Europe was, to a certain extent, rebuilt with the Shoa as a cornerstone of its identity and the primary purpose of existence. Scholars view this historical event in even broader contexts – as defining for all of humanity. Dan Diner introduces the concept of “the rupture of civilization”¹ (Zivilisationsbruch), which attributes both a universal and particular dimension to the Holocaust: “This universal crime was perpetrated against humanity in the medium of the extinction of a particular group, namely the Jews.”² Aleida Assmann comprehends the Holocaust as a “universal symbol with a global resonance”³ that gained its fields of action through representations such as images, films, books, events, and discourses. Despite its global impact, Assmann, however, also remarks that the historical memory of the Holocaust is close-knit with Europe and World War II. Therefore, it is not unexpected that European Jewish communities have remained suffering from the consequences of the Holocaust – in terms of demography, impacts of intergenerational traumas, and collective uncertainties between Jews and non-Jews.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
United in Diversity: Contemporary European Jewry in an Interdisciplinary Perspective
ISBN
978-3-11-078321-6
Number of pages of the result
4
Pages from-to
213-216
Number of pages of the book
242
Publisher name
De Gruyter
Place of publication
Oldenbourg
UT code for WoS chapter
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