Evidence
Doing Justice
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v41i4.11Keywords:
evidence, Holocaust, American Jews, crimeAbstract
This brief essay explores what it means to consider the stuff in police storage and the physical remains of atrocity collected in Holocaust museums, libraries, and archives as the stuff of American Religious history. Moreover, the paper suggests how and in what ways these materials might enable scholars to do justice to traumatic pasts.
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Brandt, Kersten, Hanno Loewy, and Krystyna Olesky. 2001. Before They Perished… Photographs Found in Auschwitz. Oswiecimiu: Panstwowe Muzeum, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Burton, Antoinette, ed. 2005. Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History. Durham: Duke University Press.
Butler, Judith. 2005. Giving An Account of Oneself. New York: Fordham University Press.
Derrida, Jacques. 1995. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Friedlander, Saul. 1992. Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the “Final Solution.” Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
———. 1994. “Trauma, Memory, and Transference.” In Holocaust Remembrance: The Shape of Memory. Geoffrey Hartman ed., Cambridge: Blackwell, 252-265.
———. 1997. Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 1, The Years of Persecution, 1933–1939. New York: HarperPerennial.
Garton Ash, Timothy. 1998. The File: A Personal History. New York: Vintage.
Gubkin, Liora. 2007. You Shall Tell Your Children: Holocaust Memory in American Passover Ritual. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Haraway, Donna. 1991. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, edited by Donna Haraway, 183–201. New York: Routledge,
Hirsch, Marianne. 1996. Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer. 2010. Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Johnson, Paul Christopher. 2008. “Savage Civil Religion.” In Religion, Terror, and Violence: Religious Studies Perspectives, edited by Bryan Rennie and Philip L. Tite. 41–65. New York, London: Routledge. Originally published in Numen 52 (2005): 289–324,
LaCapra, Dominick. 1994. Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Levitt, Laura. 2007. American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust. New York: NYU Press.
Levitt, Laura. 1997. Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home. New York: Routledge.
Levitt, Laura. 1993. “Speaking out of the Silence around Rape: A Personal Account,” Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, 41: 20-31.
Linenthal, Edward. 2001. Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum. New York: Columbia University Press.
Miller, Nancy K. 1991. Getting Personal: Feminist Occasions and Other Autobiographical Acts. New York: Routledge.
Miller, Nancy K. 2011 What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Nelson, Maggie. 2005. Jane: A Murder. Brookyn: Soft Skull Press.
———. 2007. The Red Parts: A Memoir. New York: The Free Press.
RAINN, Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network data on changing State by State statutes, collected 2006, http://www.theforensicnurse.com/Rape_And_Sexual_Assault_Statute_Of_Limitations_By_State.cfm
Stier, Oren. 2003. Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediation of the Holocaust. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Weisenfeld, Judith. 2011. “Happy Love,” Frequencies, req.uenci.es/2011/10/26/happy-s-love #
Weiss, Ann. 2005, 2001. The Last Album: Eyes from the Ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Updated and Expanded. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society.
Young, James. 2000. At Memory’s Edge: After Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Young, James. 1988. Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Published
2012-12-03
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How to Cite
Levitt, L. (2012). Evidence: Doing Justice. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 41(4), 11-15. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v41i4.11
