Human Memory -- Whether Individual or Group Essay

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human memory -- whether individual or group memory -- to historical trauma. The historical traumas discussed, however, fall across a broad spectrum. Welzer's article "Re-Narrations" looks at Germany's Nazi past, but from the perspective of succeeding generations of Germans, from those who had direct involvement with the Nazi period to successive generations born after 1945. Allan's article "The Politics of Witness" looks at a community of Palestinian refugees displaced from their village in 1948 after the establishment of the state of Israel and the clearing of existing Palestinian populations in the territory. Cenarro's article "Memory Beyond the Public Sphere" looks at Spain after the fall of Franco's Fascist government, and the way in which Franco maintained his hold on the country by suppressing discussion or commemoration of those atrocities which had occurred during the Spanish Civil War. And in perhaps the most complicated of the historical situations under discussion, Neyzi's article "Remembering to Forget" looks at the situation of the Sabbataeans in present-day Turkey -- a population that dates from the Messianic Jewish movement of Sabbatai Sevi in the 17th-century Ottoman Empire.

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The particular complication here is that Sabbatai himself converted to Islam at the behest of the Ottoman Sultan, and would eventually die in exile in Albania -- but his large following remained in Turkey, and occupied a peculiar social niche as Jewish converts to Islam, who nevertheless maintained some Jewish practices and did maintain a distinct group identity (forbidding exogamy with the Muslim Turks, for example). If Sabbatai's Messianic leadership proved to be traumatic in one way for his followers, Neyzi demonstrates how Kemal Ataturk's secularization campaign would prove to be traumatic in another way.

In all of these cases, several common themes stand out. One….....

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