Michael Rothberg is a professor of English and comparative literature and the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies at UCLA. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation, Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonisation and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. He is currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
On 1 April, the memorial site at the former Buchenwald concentration camp announced that the Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm would no longer be speaking at the eightieth anniversary commemoration of the camp’s liberation. Boehm was disinvited because of pressure from the Israeli embassy. How did the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor become the object of such a campaign by the Israeli government?
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