When Memory Comes: Let the Tears Flow

Paul Mendes-Flohr

doi:10.1080/25785648.2022.2153428

When Memory Comes: Let the Tears Flow

Paul Mendes-Flohr^*

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Department of Jewish Thought

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Abstract

The title of the essay alludes to Friedländer’s Holocaust memoir of 1979. Lament–unabashedly lachrymose–evoked by the memory of Auschwitz resists and implicitly questions the politicization of Holocaust commemoration. Furthermore, lamentation defies both theological and secular explanations of the Holocaust as defiling and vitiating the depth of our grief, and paradoxically our hope-against-hope that the evil that continues to haunt the human family will be ultimately vanquished.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	22-25
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Holocaust Research
Volume	37
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/25785648.2022.2153428
State	Published - 2023

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Keywords

Commemoration
hope-against-hope
the chimera of explanation
Tisha b-’av

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