Memory Failure
Pankaj Mishra: Germany’s Commitment to Israel, 4 January 2024
Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany
by Esra Özyürek.
Stanford, 264 pp., £25.99, March,978 1 5036 3556 2 Show More
by Esra Özyürek.
Stanford, 264 pp., £25.99, March,
Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust
by Andrew Port.
Harvard, 352 pp., £30.95, May,978 0 674 27522 5 Show More
by Andrew Port.
Harvard, 352 pp., £30.95, May,
“... decent Arabs.In Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany, Esra Özyürek describes the way that German politicians, officials and journalists, now that the far right is in the ascendant, have been cranking up the old mechanism of sanitising Germany by demonising Muslims. In December 2022, German police foiled a ... ”