Memoria e postmemoria della Shoah in Italia. Tra storiografia e discorso pubblico
The presence of the Holocaust of the Shoah in Italian public discourse has changed profoundly in recent decades, primarily due to a shift in historiography that began in 1988, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of fascist racial laws. In 2001, legislation instituted Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 J...
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| Language: | fra |
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École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Editions
2025-05-01
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| Series: | Laboratoire Italien |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/laboratoireitalien/13864 |
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| Summary: | The presence of the Holocaust of the Shoah in Italian public discourse has changed profoundly in recent decades, primarily due to a shift in historiography that began in 1988, the year of the fiftieth anniversary of fascist racial laws. In 2001, legislation instituted Holocaust Remembrance Day (27 January). This date marked the official recognition of the events of the Holocaust in the Italian civil calendar, as well as the ritualisation and overproduction of remembrance. Paradoxically, the Italian law instituting the official commemoration of 27 January does not mention the term ‘fascism’. The constant commemoration of the ‘Righteous’, i.e. those who saved the Jews, has prevailed in public discourse over the memory of the Italians who arrested Jews in 1943-1945, collaborating with the Germans in their deportation. The more recent ‘postmemory’ phase suggests a possible move beyond monumentalisation, for example through the installation of ‘stumbling blocks’ in Italian and European cities, commemorating individual victims at the sites of their arrest. Narratives that blend history and literature, produced by a third generation, including non-Jews, are also flourishing. Yet, for the memory of the events of the Holocaust to be ‘authentic’, it must be nourished by both stories and history. |
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| ISSN: | 1627-9204 2117-4970 |