Museums of shame : Dovid Hofshteyn's vision of Holocaust remembrance
- In early 1944, shortly after the liberation of Kyiv, the Yiddish poet Dovid Hofshteyn (1889–1952) returned home from evacuation and was confronted firsthand with the horrors of the Holocaust. This encounter moved him to pen the passionate essay "Muzeyen fun shand" ("Museums of Shame"). [...] He suggested gathering pictures, documents, and tools of this terrible time that were to be displayed in so-called museums of shame in "every major city in the world and in every point of German population." [...] Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there were plans to fully open the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center by 2023 - though those plans have certainly been hindered by the latest war of aggression on the territory of Ukraine. [...] However, even prior to the Russian war against Ukraine, the Memorial Center was already shrouded in controversy. Some critics were wary that certain funders - Russian oligarchs with ties to Putin - would seek to turn the site into an outlet for Kremlin propaganda with an anti-Ukrainian bias that focused predominantly on Ukrainian collaborators. While a number of Ukrainians were indeed collaborators during the Holocaust, even more Ukrainians became victims of the Nazis. Other critics thus argue that a sober look at the crimes committed by Ukrainians as well as by the German occupiers is a sign of the mature civil society which has emerged in Ukraine.
Author: | Brett WinestockORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-692057 |
URL: | https://www.zflprojekte.de/zfl-blog/2022/08/17/brett-winestock-museums-of-shame-dovid-hofshteyns-vision-of-holocaust-remembrance/ |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.13151/zfl-blog/20220817-01 |
ISSN: | 2748-5072 |
Parent Title (German): | ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin |
Series (Serial Number): | ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin (17.08.2022) |
Publisher: | Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of Periodical |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/08/29 |
Date of first Publication: | 2022/08/17 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/09/22 |
GND Keyword: | Gofštejn, David N.; Massaker von Babi Jar; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Gedenkstätte |
Volume: | 2022 |
Issue: | 17.08.2022 |
Page Number: | 5 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 5 |
Note: | Erweiterte Version eines zuerst unter https://mimeo.dubnow.de/museums-of-shame/ erschienenen Beitrags. |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin | |
JudaicaDoc | Jüdische Studien und Israel-Studien / Jüdische Studien - Geschichte und Politik / Jüdische Studien - Shoa | |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin |
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