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The Burden of the Past
Thomas Kovach
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English translation, analysis, and contextualization of Walser's notorious but little-examined Peace-Prize speech and related writings. The German novelist Martin Walser's 1998 speech upon accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade remains a milestone in recent German efforts to come to terms with the Nazi past. The day after the speech, Ignatz Bubis, leader of Germany's Jewish community, attacked Walser for inciting dangerous right-wing sentiment with controversial passages including the notorious statement "Auschwitz is not suited to be a moral bludgeon," thus igniting the protracted public battle of opinions known as the "Walser-Bubis Debate." The speech continues to ... Read more
English translation, analysis, and contextualization of Walser's notorious but little-examined Peace-Prize speech and related writings. The German novelist Martin Walser's 1998 speech upon accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade remains a milestone in recent German efforts to come to terms with the Nazi past. The day after the speech, Ignatz Bubis, leader of Germany's Jewish community, attacked Walser for inciting dangerous right-wing sentiment with controversial passages including the notorious statement "Auschwitz is not suited to be a moral bludgeon," thus igniting the protracted public battle of opinions known as the "Walser-Bubis Debate." The speech continues to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
153
Condition
New
Number of Pages
153
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571133687
SKU
V9781571133687
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About Thomas Kovach
THOMAS KOVACH Head of Department of German Studies, University of Arizona.
Reviews for The Burden of the Past
[T]he 80-year old Walser has been identified as Germany's leading spokesman for the 'enough already' intellectual position that Germany has absorbed enough guilt over the Holocaust.. This volume offers Kovach's translations of Walser's explosive acceptance speech when he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1998) and of several of Walser's earlier speeches.. Especially valuable to those ... Read more