Who should speak of the Shoah? In praise of imperfect testimony
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12869/TM2018-2-01Keywords:
Testimony, Ethics, Freud, Anti-Semitism, ReflectionsAbstract
A detailed analysis of the context and the text of a letter of Freud, refusing to write about anti-Semitism inhis last year of life with the Shoah approaching against the horizon of nazism, but finally published as such, leads toreflections on testimony in general, on who should give it in the cases of crimes like the Shoah, and on indirect andimpure testimony and its ethics.References
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