The Left Berlin Reading Group: Erinnerungskultur: who gets to be remembered and who is forgotten?

The Next Left Berlin Reading group will be on German Erinnerungskultur. Please try to read at least the recommended reading to help the discussion.

Recommended Reading

• Katja Mauerer  Crime without Punishment
• Tsafrir Cohen and Eyal Weizman  So All Good again now?
• Pankaj Mishra  Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
• Interview with Michael Rothberg  We Need a New Ethics of Comparison

Supplementary Reading

• Open Letter  Save the Berlin Memorial to the murdered Roma and Sinti of Europe
• Interview with woman arrested for “Have we not learned from the Holocaust” sign  What is the point of German Memory Culture when it has no universal application?
• Helen Whittle Germany: Controversy over ‘culture of remembrance’ reform
• Mathias Risse  Singular Crime, Double Duty: Germany, Israel, and the Palestinian People after the Holocaust
• Masha Gessen  In the Shadow of the Holocaust
• Andrea Carlo  Holocaust Remembrance Day: How are Nazi Germany’s LGBT+ victims commemorated across Europe?