Experience, reflection and image of the Holocaust. Outline of the methodological progress in exile studies.
Abstract
This study attempted to outline recent progress in exile studies and Holocaust studies and also stick to the general theme of the Second Prague Seminar held by the Association of Jewish Academics, which was to capture the fleeting moments of the Holocaust in human personal and collective memory. The first part of the text was devoted to the interface of the two above-mentioned research streams, as both were destined to work together because of their similar methodological and historiographical progress.
It was also presented one potential approach to those topics, which combined both trends together. This stance resulted from the author's own research, in which she applied some methods of historical anthropology to the two aforementioned approaches.
The last part of the study pursued new questions, which offered this new broader view. It focused on the question how author's new methodological approach could transform interpretation of the results of some previous research on the Holocaust and how it could ultimately help to achieve the overall view of this complex phenomenon.