Prosser, J orcid.org/0000-0002-9327-9631 (2019) The “charnel house of historic memories”: Salonica as Site of Transcultural Memory in the Published Writings of Cecil Roth. The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 10 (1). pp. 1-53. ISSN 2191-6411
Abstract
Following his visit to Salonica in 1946 Cecil Roth became the first historian to engage with the significance of the Holocaust in Salonica. This essay analyses Roth’s published writings on Salonica to examine how they radically revise our understanding of Holocaust memory. Roth identifies Holocaust memory at an extraordinarily early moment. By paralleling the Holocaust and the Spanish Inquisition, Roth depicts Holocaust memory as transhistorical. Most transformatively Roth reveals the transcultural memories of Sephardi Jews as an object for Nazi destruction in the Holocaust. Roth’s Salonica writings underline the importance of Jewish Salonica as a site of transcultural memory. Focusing on these writings, my essay recovers Roth as a valuable source for contemporary memory, transcultural and Jewish studies.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This article is protected by copyright. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Cecil Roth; Salonica; Holocaust; Sephardi Jews; Ottoman Empire; memory studies |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Arts & Humanities Research Council AHRC AH/K000403/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2019 16:08 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 21:57 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Heidelberg University Publishing |
Identification Number: | 10.17885/heiup.jts.2019.1.23793 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:149517 |