19:00 - 20:30
Sara Nussbaum Center
conversation: “Memory debates – Historian dispute 2.0, documenta 15 and the presence of anti-Semitism"
Since 7.10.2023 The world is experiencing a wave of blatant anti-Semitism and desires for annihilation against the State of Israel. The largest anti-Semitic massacre since the Shoah, committed by Hamas and its supporters, Many people do not feel solidarity with the victims and their families, the Jews and the Israeli population, but to hatred and malice, Perpetrator-victim reversal, Relativizations, Denials to enthusiasm for the act. There are also ideological elements in the public debate about his assessment, which have already played a role in the socio-political debates of recent years.
The historians' dispute is particularly worth mentioning here 2.0 and the debate about documenta_fifteen. (…)
This has immediate political consequences, especially for Jewish life and the State of Israel: Because if there was nothing “unprecedented” about the Holocaust, then the specifics of anti-Semitism are misunderstood, loses meaning and allows the accusation to be constructed, It is enough with remembrance and solidarity: The catechism should be overcome. That demonstrators after the 7. October slogans like “Free Palestine from German Guilt” chanted through the streets of Berlin, must therefore be seen in direct connection with these debates – The slogan was coined as part of the documenta_fifteen, to ward off criticism of anti-Semitic content in some works of art.
The Breitenau Memorial and the Sara Nussbaum Center therefore invite you, to re-dedicate ourselves to these debates and to examine them against the background of 7. to be taken up in October.