Space in Holocaust Research: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2024

Space in Holocaust Research

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking

Edited by: Janine Fubel , Alexandra Klei and Annika Wienert
Funded by: Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah , Zucker/Goldber Center for Holocaust Studies , FernUniversität in Hagen , Eur'Orbem and Zeitstiftung Bucerius

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111078816

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In recent years, the issue of space has sparked debates in the field of Holocaust Studies. The book demonstrates the transdisciplinary potential of space-related approaches. The editors suggest that “spatial thinking” can foster a dialogue on the history, aftermath, and memory of the Holocaust that transcends disciplinary boundaries. Artworks by Yael Atzmony serve as a prologue to the volume, inviting us to reflect on the complicated relation of the actual crime site of the Sobibor extermination camp to (family) memory, archival sources, and material traces.

In the first part of the book, renowned scholars introduce readers to the relevance of space for key aspects of Holocaust Studies. In the second part, nine original case studies demonstrate how and to what ends spatial thinking in Holocaust research can be put into practice. In four introductory essays, the editors identify spatial configurations that transcend conventional disciplinary, chronological, or geographical systematizations: Fleeting Spaces; Institutionalized Spaces; Border/ing Spaces; Spatial Relations. Drawing on a host of theoretical concepts and addressing various historical contexts as well as different types of media, this book offers scholars and students valuable insights into cutting-edge, international scholarly debates.

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Janine Fubel, FernUniversität in Hagen; Alexandra Klei, Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden; Annika Wienert, Max Weber Stiftung.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
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Tracing Oblivion: The Collected Works of Yael Atzmony Hannah Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Tracing Oblivion Yael Atzmony Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Spatial Thinking in Holocaust Studies Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei and Annika Wienert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Part I: Theoretical-methodological Approaches
Expanding Geographies of the Holocaust: Refugees and Spatial Histories Eliyana R. Adler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Space and Violence as Analytical Categories in Holocaust Research Ulrike Jureit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Why is Landscape Research Important for Holocaust Studies? Luba Jurgenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
How Can We Map the Holocaust? Anne Kelly Knowles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Daily Experiences of Persecution in the City: Mobilizing Diaries to Study the Holocaust in Urban Settings Maël Le Noc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Space in Holocaust Film Sue Vice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Part II: Case Studies
Fleeting Spaces
Motion, Fluidity, and Virtuality of Space Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei and Annika Wienert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Multipurposing Jewish Spaces: German Jewry’s Struggles to Provide Places for its Activities in Hostile Surroundings Yaakov Borut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Remembering Arcadia in Auschwitz: Pastoral Representations of the Death Camps Li Shir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Domestic Space in the Films of Chantal Akerman and Claude Lanzmann Sue Vice and Dominic Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Institutionalized Spaces
Institutionalization as a Socio-spatial Process: Norms, Rules, and Behavior Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei and Annika Wienert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Blocked Pathways: Regional Room for Manoeuvre of the Jews in the Administrative District of Zichenau, 1939–1945 Christhardt Henschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Denkmäler als Raumproduzenten – Der Gedenkkomplex Trascjanec bei Minsk Gundula Pohl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Border/ing Spaces
Drawing Lines, Crossing Frontiers, Transgressing Boundaries Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei and Annika Wienert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Treblinka Geography: Nazi Building, Jewish Breaking, Historical Reconstructing Chad S.A. Gibbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Fensterblicke auf den Genozid Anne D. Peiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Spatial Relations
Overlapping, Overwriting: Syn/Diachronic Spatial Relationships Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei and Annika Wienert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Wandlungen eines Exil- und Erinnerungsraumes: Shanghai – Hongkou – Tilanqiao Thomas Pekar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Räumliche Überlagerungen. Erkenntnisse zu den Raumbeziehungen der Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück durch eine zeichnerisch-räumliche Analyse Anne Mertins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Academics in the field of Holocaust studies, history, memory studies, literary and film studies
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 355
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 16
- Coloured Illustrations: 56
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Memory; Shoah; National Socialism; space

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Published: May 20, 2024
ISBN: 9783111078816

Hardcover

Published: May 20, 2024
ISBN: 9783111078144