In fact, one of the conditions for the consolidation of the Nazi regime. The destruction of the workers' movement was not a gradual process: it was, (1933‑35) then economic depredations and the adoption of a policy Several stages: first discrimination and the questioning of emancipation again Nazi anti‑Semitism developed gradually and inexorably, passing through In 1933, nazism unleashed its attack on the workers' organizations, not on the Themselves incapable of obstructing the rise of National SocialismĪnd of providing an alternative to the dissolution of the Weimar Republic. SPD were dismantled without offering any real resistance, after having shown Had seen the danger of German fascism: his warnings went unheeded. Jewish community, notably the Zentraverein, tried to find a form of coexistenceĪnd accommodation with the new regime. Position even more hazardous and precarious. Majority of the tens of thousands of Jews who left Germany were intellectualsĪnd left-wing militants, Socialists or Communists, whose Judeity made their Laws were soon to abolish at one shot the gains made by emancipation. Powerless and continued desperately to cling to a national identity that hadīeen obstinately constructed over a century of assimilation. The Jews, as Scholem bitterly observed in this same letter, were Were aware of the fact that Hitler's rise to power signified the end of Judaism Seem today a good deal more lucid than any of the Marxist analyses of the time. Movements,' he wrote 'is frightfully obvious, but the defeat of German JewryĬertainly does not pale by comparison.' These words, written in Palestineīy a historian of the Cabbala who had left Germany almost ten years before, In 1492: 'The magnitude of the collapse of the communist and socialist It should interest not only historians but all humanists and social scientists as well as the general reader.Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Enzo Traverso: The Aporias of Marxism / Archaism and Modernity The Aporias of Marxism / Archaism and Modernity By Enzo Traversoĭated 13 April 1933, Gershom Scholem described the rise of Nazi GermanyĪs 'a catastrophe of world‑historical proportions' which permitted himįor the first time 'to comprehend deeply' the expulsion of the Spanish Jews His erudite, insightful analysis extends more broadly to address questions about the very nature of history and its relations to other areas such as literature and film. Focusing on their interactions, he outlines what he deems a significant phenomenon in current historical writing: the growing intrusiveness of subjectivity and personal experience undermining a choral vision of the past.ĭominick LaCapra, author of Understanding Others: Peoples, Animals, Pasts:Įnzo Traverso has written an important book about first-person, more or less subjective and hybridized history-a much discussed and debated approach that has risen to prominence in the recent past. In this engaging book, Traverso guides us through the innumerable narrations of the past by contemporary writers and historians. In this sweeping review of recent histories written in the first person, at the crossroads between history and literature, Traverso offers a lucid analysis of this subjective turn and a sharp critique of this new ‘I’ that speaks of and for the past: that of ‘Historian Narcissus.’Ĭarlotta Sorba, author of Politics and Sentiments in Risorgimento Italy: Melodrama and the Nation: Thomas Dodman, author of What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion:
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