The issue of Quest titled ‘Holocaust Intersections in 21st century Europe; and edited by Robert S.C. Gordon and Emiliano Perra sets out to explore the transversal intersections which permeate 21st-century Holocaust legacies with six articles designed to offer a broad approach to the question. The Introduction penned by Gordon and Perra discusses cases ranging from New Zealand, Poland and France to Australia, Rwanda and Armenia. The articles range over a variety of different geographical and national arenas in Europe, from Britain to Lithuania, from Serbia to Italy. The issue dedicates particular attention to the case of the latter contry, in a concerted attempt to adapt to the complexities of the Italian case some of the most interesting recent research and methods of an ‘intersectional’ kind, in ways that perhaps have not been fully attempted before. The issue also deliberately encourages an open understanding of the kinds of intersections or what Duncan, following Rey Chow, calls ‘entanglements’, which might bring Holocaust ‘talk’ into contact with other discourses and representations in early 21st-century Europe. The six articles look variously at literature and its intersections with sites of memory (Vervaet, ‘Between Local and Global Politics of Memory: Transnational Dimensions of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Serbian Prose Fiction and Film’); at groups, associations and communities and their identitarian politics as they cross borders from one memory constituency to another (Peretti, ‘“La nostra fratellanza nel dolore”: The Jewish Community of Rome and the “Other” Genocides’); at how old and new media grapple with forms of communication and representation of events, memories and their politics (Duncan, ‘“Il clandestino è l’ebreo di oggi”: Imprints of the Shoah on Migration to Italy’; Garofalo, ‘Temporal Cross-References and Multidirectional Comparisons: Holocaust Remembrance Day on Italian State Television); at education and its impact on public, civic discourse (Critchell, ‘Remembering and Forgetting: The Holocaust in 21st Century Britain’); and at developments in scholarship, theory and academic study as it interacts with and reflects inter-governmental dialogue (Allwork, ‘Interrogating Europe’s Voids of Memory: Trauma Theory and Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational’). Taken together, these articles do not aim to offer comprehensive coverage in regional or conceptual terms, but to give a strong sense of the importance of this transversal approach for understanding the shifting ground of the Holocaust’s present-day status and value.
Holocaust Intersections in 21st-Century Europeedited by Robert S. C. Gordon, Emiliano Perra
Interrogating Europe’s Voids of Memory: Trauma Theory and Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational by Larissa Allwork
Remembering and Forgetting: the Holocaust in 21st Century Britain by Kara Critchell
“Il clandestino è l'ebreo di oggi”: Imprints of the Shoah on Migration to Italy by Derek Duncan
“La nostra fratellanza nel dolore”: the Jewish Community of Rome and the ‘Other’ Genocides by Luca Peretti
Between Local and Global Politics of Memory: Transnational Dimensions of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Serbian Prose Fiction and Film by Stijn Vervaet
Temporal Cross-References and Multidirectional Comparisons: Holocaust Remembrance Day on Italian State Television by Damiano Garofalo
Discussion
Maud S. Mandel Muslims and Jews in France. History of a conflict Contributions by: Joëlle Allouche-Benayou and Bryan S. Turner
Reviews
Anna Bernard Rhetorics of Belonging: Nation, Narration, and Israel/Palestine by Dario Miccoli
Marco Clementi, Eirini Toliou Gli ultimi ebrei di Rodi. Leggi razziali e deportazioni nel Dodecaneso italiano (1938–1948), by Michele Sarfatti
Inna Shtakser The Making of Jewish Revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement: Community and Identity during the Russian Revolution and its Immediate Aftermath, 1905–07 by Polly Zavadivker
David Malkiel Stones Speak – Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529–1862 by Andrea Morpurgo