Julie Kalman

The Jew in the scenery: Historicizing nineteenth-century travel literature

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 16-04-2013

DOI: 10.1093/FH/CRT005

The unyielding wall: Jews and Catholics in restoration and July monarchy France

Publisher: Duke University Press

Date: 10-2003

DOI: 10.1215/00161071-26-4-661

Presence and absence of the Shoah in Strasbourg – A regional narrative

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 23-11-2017

DOI: 10.1177/0022009416664019

Abstract: ‘Presence and Absence of the Shoah in Strasbourg – A Regional Narrative’ tells a particularly Alsatian story of the absenting of Jews from the postwar narrative of the city of Strasbourg, and through it, the author explores the tension between regional specificity in a border region with a distinct local identity and a unique history, and a broader national narrative in France. Jews in postwar Strasbourg were absented from the narrative of the war through the double impulse of containment and universalisation. This article uses these double impulses to raise the question of the significance to the postwar of border regions in the making of national narratives.

Thinking the Jew through the Turbulent Nineteenth Century

Publisher: BRILL

Date: 2016

DOI: 10.1163/9789004324190_013

Absence in the aftermath

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 12-01-2017

DOI: 10.1177/0022009416683024

Abstract: An estimated six million European Jews perished during the Second World War. Jews had been implanted right throughout Europe. Whether as integrated citizens, or as significant others, they contributed to the fabric of societies all over Europe in unique and significant ways. At the end of the war, much of Europe lay in waste. Yet almost all over the continent, societies were also forced to re-organize themselves to become places that no longer had a Jewish community. How were European narratives shaped and re-shaped around those great holes in the fabric of daily life? How did surviving Jews experience the absence of families, friends, and former national and ethnic communities? The scholarship of memory has established that the way that nations remember selectively can tell us about their processes of building national mythologies and identities. Presences, too, can be used and abused, calculated to evoke or elide a significant absence. The idea of absence gives us a framework for making sense of those traces. Thinking about the aftermath of the Second World War and the Holocaust in terms of absence offers new insight into the nature of postwar life in Europe and processes of rebuilding, of recasting national stories, and reimagining.

David Sorkin: Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019; pp. x + 511.

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 18-04-2022

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.12844

Going home to the holy land: The Jews of Jerusalem in nineteenth-century French Catholic pilgrimage

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Date: 06-2012

DOI: 10.1086/664644

Monash University

Location: Australia

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Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP120100385

Start Date: 2012

End Date: 06-2016

Amount: $90,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

ARC Future Fellowships - Grant ID: FT150100110

Start Date: 06-2016

End Date: 09-2022

Amount: $787,769.00

Funder: Australian Research Council