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"The cliché holds that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Presumably the reverse is also true: those who obsessively and eagerly remember past catastrophes are condemned to repeat it at breakneck speed.
Wanting to understand how Israeli memory can become a stranglehold, and how one is then supposed to forget, I found myself standing in front of Omer Bartov's apartment in a quiet and unremarkable street in Cambridge, MA, in May. (...)"
In de laatste editie van Boston Review, een Amerikaans tijdschrift voor politiek en literatuur, is de Engelse vertaling van Arnon Grunbergs interview met de Israëlische historicus Omer Bartov opgenomen, over het (vermeende) lot van het zionisme, het 'non-debat' over de vraag hoe uniek de Holocaust was en over straffeloosheid. U kunt het stuk, dat eerder in Trouw stond, ook online lezen op de website van Boston Review.
"The cliché holds that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Presumably the reverse is also true: those who obsessively and eagerly remember past catastrophes are condemned to repeat it at breakneck speed.
Wanting to understand how Israeli memory can become a stranglehold, and how one is then supposed to forget, I found myself standing in front of Omer Bartov's apartment in a quiet and unremarkable street in Cambridge, MA, in May. (…)"
The latest issue of Boston Review, an American political and literary magazine, includes an English translation of Arnon Grunberg's interview with Israeli historian Omer Bartov. The article discusses the (alleged) fate of Zionism, the "non-debate" about the uniqueness of the Holocaust, and impunity. You may read the article, which previously appeared in Dutch newspaper Trouw, in print or for free on the Boston Review website.
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