https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/They-Did-Witness https://booksandideas.net/They-Did-Witness 2019-03-28T06:30:00Z text/html en Nick Underwood History Shoah world war testimony yiddish Books and ideas originals postwar <p>When did Holocaust survivors start speaking about their experiences? Were their voices heard? A prevailing myth states that witnesses remained silent during the postwar years. However, Judith Lindenberg's edited volume argues that the “urgency to say and make known was present from the beginning of the genocide”.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Naming-the-Crime https://booksandideas.net/Naming-the-Crime 2019-02-14T06:00:00Z text/html en Pauline Peretz History genocide world war testimony law <p>Two men, the lawyer Raphael Lemkin and the resistant Jan Karski, realized early on what fate the Nazis had decided for Europe's Jews. Why did their struggle for the political and legal recognition of a crime against an entire people encounter so many obstacles?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Man-on-The-Street https://booksandideas.net/Man-on-The-Street 2016-12-12T08:00:00Z text/html en Pauline Peretz Society International testimony Institut français radio <p>For more than ten years, a mobile studio has been touring the United States and offering to record the conversation of all those who might be interested. By collecting the words of anonymous people, StoryCorps aims to strengthen ties and to document contemporary America. Could it be that it primarily encourages self-staging?</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Weight-of-Memory https://booksandideas.net/The-Weight-of-Memory 2016-10-13T07:00:00Z text/html en Éric Méchoulan Society memory genocide testimony Florence Gould Foundation <p>In a multidisciplinary book, Catherine Coquio shows that behind the contemporary cult for memory and truth lies a crisis that is preventing us from moving forward.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-language-of-the-executioners https://booksandideas.net/The-language-of-the-executioners 2010-11-29T07:50:00Z text/html en Ivan Jablonka History Germany Shoah judaism genocide language testimony yiddish translation <span class="caps">FMSH</span> Text Interviews <p>As Friedländer notes in <i>The Years of Extermination</i>, Hitler lost the war against the Allied forces but not the one he unleashed against the Jews. Within a few years, Nazism had succeeded in destroying a civilisation, a heritage, a language. The executioners spoke German but they also invented a whole propaganda lexicon, complete with coded language and circumlocutions designed to conceal the extermination scheme. Conversely, in the face of imminent destruction, the victims accumulated testimonies. Are there such things as languages of life and languages of death? Dialogue between a historian and his translator.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Back-from-the-Trenches https://booksandideas.net/Back-from-the-Trenches 2009-04-23T07:37:17Z text/html en Pierre Purseigle History la suite gauche Europe testimony war La Grande Guerre, toujours présente citizenship <p>In his recent book devoted to the historiographical debate over the Great War, Christophe Prochasson explores the ongoing renegotiation of the forms of patriotic consent, as well as the blurring of boundaries between true and false and the manner in which the Republic was put to the test by the conflict.</p>