Incongruous Images

"Before, During, and After" the Holocaust1

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5157902
AutoresMarianne Hirsch (0000-0002-1383-8473, Columbia University), Leo Spitzer (0000-0002-4925-7291, Dartmouth College)
Año2009
Volumen48
Número4
Páginas9-25
Fecha de publicación2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory and Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2303.2009.00514.x
OpenAlexW1909283373
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14

When historians, archivists, and museologists turn to Eastern European photos from family albums or collections-for example, photos from the decades preceding the Holocaust and the early years of the Second World War-they seek visual evidence or illustrations of the past. But photographs may refuse to fit expected narratives and interpretations, revealing both more and less than we expect. Focusing on photos of Jews taken on the main avenues of Cernǎuţi, Romania, before the Second World War and during the city's occupation by Fascist Romanians and their Nazi-German allies, this essay shows how a close reading of these vernacular images, both for what they show and what they are unable to show, can challenge the "before, during, and after" timeline that, in Holocaust historiography, we have come to accept as a given

Archaeology · Art · German · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · Nazism · Political science · Reading (process) · The Holocaust · Timeline · Vernacular · World War II · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration