Paul Merker, the GDR, and the politics of memory : 'purging cosmopolitanism'?
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Martyrdom of Paul Merker -- State-Mandated Memory -- Ideology and Memory -- Defining Antisemitism -- Outline of Chapters -- 2 What's in a Purge?: A Tale of Two Show Trials -- The 'German Rajk'?: Merker and t...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,
[2024]
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| Umfang: | 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Martyrdom of Paul Merker -- State-Mandated Memory -- Ideology and Memory -- Defining Antisemitism -- Outline of Chapters -- 2 What's in a Purge?: A Tale of Two Show Trials -- The 'German Rajk'?: Merker and the Noel Fiel Affair -- The 'German Slánský'? The Second Show Trial Theory -- 3 'The German Slánský' in State-mandated Memory -- Merker and the Ministry for State Security: An Antisemitic Investigation? -- Merker and the Discourse of Antisemitism in State-mandated Representations -- 4 'Purging Cosmopolitanism'? Merker and the 'Anti-cosmopolitan Campaign' -- The Anti-cosmopolitan Campaign in Historiography -- Anti-cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Discourse -- 'Anti-cosmopolitanism'-A Fascist Discourse? -- Cosmopolitanism and Ideology -- 5 Paul Merker and the 'Jewish Question(s)' -- The Judgement and Legal Rehabilitation of Paul Merker -- The Central Committee's 'Lessons from the Trial of the Slánský Conspiracy Centre': An Antisemitic Campaign? -- Merker, Israel and the 'Question of Reparations' -- 6 Antisemitism and Antifascism-The Faultlines of National Legitimation -- Archives -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783031620683 3031620682 9783031620676 3031620674 |