Nina Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1468-3706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance and the Apartheid Analogy
Israel/Palestine is a context in which the term “apartheid” keeps reappearing. As a historical analogy and cultural shorthand, it functions as a powerful Palestinian weapon when used to describe Israeli policy and actions in what amounts to a battle of narratives in the international arena. For a long time, Palestinians have been known primarily for their violent struggle, but employing loaded vocabulary to depict their lives and experiences unde…
Entangled suffering and disruptive empathy
Discussions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict are rarely far from the topic of the Holocaust, often taking the form of competitive victimhood, as supporters of both sides politicize the memory of the genocide for their political gain. In her 2010 novel Mornings in Jenin, Palestinian–American Susan Abulhawa interweaves a Palestinian narrative of history – including the Nakba, that is, the destruction of historical Palestine in 1948, the ongoing …
Religious Ritual, Injustice, and Resistance
Writing a Whole Life
Many scholars argue today that the memory of the Holocaust has become transnational, travelling to locations and cultures worldwide. This phenomenon has been explored in relation to technological developments, but thus far little scholarly attention has been paid to the interconnection between Holocaust memory and the post-war migration of survivors. In this article, I redress this critical oversight and examine how memory and migration shape the…
Das Schweigen und das Kind
Introduction
Searching for a lost place
Migrants tend to construct memory narratives of their former homelands. In the case of Holocaust survivors, the locations of family and community in Europe have been destroyed culturally and physically and have become ‘lost places’. Lives of Holocaust survivors are rarely thought about from the perspective of migrant biographies, even though only very few survivors returned to live in their former hometowns after liberation, but instead moved to …
Schweigen
Wovon man nicht reden kann, darüber muss man schweigen« – so Wittgensteins berühmtes Diktum. Gewöhnlich fasst man das »Worüber« des Schweigens im mystischen Sinne auf: als das, was jenseits des menschlichem Erkennen Zugänglichen und mit sprachlichen Mitteln Artikulierbaren liegt. Man kann aber auch an das Jenseits des Kommunizierbaren denken, was durchaus erkennbar ist, aber sich jeder Mitteilung versperrt: weil es niemand gern hören, weil es der…
Re-inscribing Holocaust Memory
This essay proposes that Ruth Klüger’s still alive is an intentional American rewrite of her German autobiography. Using different strategies of adaptation and cross-cultural translation, Klüger transforms her life story into a contemporary Jewish-American autobiography. This re-inscription of memories, especially those of her youth in Vienna, her Holocaust survival and migration into a different memory community is done to create ‘thick’ relatio…
Investigating (in) Multi-Cultural Jerusalem
This paper examines Jonathan Kellerman’s 1988 novel “The Butcher’s Theatre” as a means to represent Jerusalem’s citizenry and cityscape. The generic characteristics of the detective novel allow for a realistic depiction and investigation of contemporary Jerusalem and its multiple social and political problems. Kellerman highlights the multicultural and multireligious features of the city instead of representing it as a topos of cultural memory
Schweigen
Wovon man nicht reden kann, darüber muss man schweigen« – so Wittgensteins berühmtes Diktum. Gewöhnlich fasst man das »Worüber« des Schweigens im mystischen Sinne auf: als das, was jenseits des menschlichem Erkennen Zugänglichen und mit sprachlichen Mitteln Artikulierbaren liegt. Man kann aber auch an das Jenseits des Kommunizierbaren denken, was durchaus erkennbar ist, aber sich jeder Mitteilung versperrt: weil es niemand gern hören, weil es der…
Investigating (in) Multi-Cultural Jerusalem
This paper examines Jonathan Kellerman’s 1988 novel “The Butcher’s Theatre” as a means to represent Jerusalem’s citizenry and cityscape. The generic characteristics of the detective novel allow for a realistic depiction and investigation of contemporary Jerusalem and its multiple social and political problems. Kellerman highlights the multicultural and multireligious features of the city instead of representing it as a topos of cultural memory
Re-inscribing Holocaust Memory
This essay proposes that Ruth Klüger’s still alive is an intentional American rewrite of her German autobiography. Using different strategies of adaptation and cross-cultural translation, Klüger transforms her life story into a contemporary Jewish-American autobiography. This re-inscription of memories, especially those of her youth in Vienna, her Holocaust survival and migration into a different memory community is done to create ‘thick’ relatio…
Das Schweigen und das Kind
Introduction
Searching for a lost place
Migrants tend to construct memory narratives of their former homelands. In the case of Holocaust survivors, the locations of family and community in Europe have been destroyed culturally and physically and have become ‘lost places’. Lives of Holocaust survivors are rarely thought about from the perspective of migrant biographies, even though only very few survivors returned to live in their former hometowns after liberation, but instead moved to …
Schweigen
Wovon man nicht reden kann, darüber muss man schweigen« – so Wittgensteins berühmtes Diktum. Gewöhnlich fasst man das »Worüber« des Schweigens im mystischen Sinne auf: als das, was jenseits des menschlichem Erkennen Zugänglichen und mit sprachlichen Mitteln Artikulierbaren liegt. Man kann aber auch an das Jenseits des Kommunizierbaren denken, was durchaus erkennbar ist, aber sich jeder Mitteilung versperrt: weil es niemand gern hören, weil es der…
Writing a Whole Life
Many scholars argue today that the memory of the Holocaust has become transnational, travelling to locations and cultures worldwide. This phenomenon has been explored in relation to technological developments, but thus far little scholarly attention has been paid to the interconnection between Holocaust memory and the post-war migration of survivors. In this article, I redress this critical oversight and examine how memory and migration shape the…
Religious Ritual, Injustice, and Resistance
Entangled suffering and disruptive empathy
Discussions of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict are rarely far from the topic of the Holocaust, often taking the form of competitive victimhood, as supporters of both sides politicize the memory of the genocide for their political gain. In her 2010 novel Mornings in Jenin, Palestinian–American Susan Abulhawa interweaves a Palestinian narrative of history – including the Nakba, that is, the destruction of historical Palestine in 1948, the ongoing …
Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance and the Apartheid Analogy
Israel/Palestine is a context in which the term “apartheid” keeps reappearing. As a historical analogy and cultural shorthand, it functions as a powerful Palestinian weapon when used to describe Israeli policy and actions in what amounts to a battle of narratives in the international arena. For a long time, Palestinians have been known primarily for their violent struggle, but employing loaded vocabulary to depict their lives and experiences unde…
History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · The Holocaust (4 works)