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Teaching Around Trauma: The Holocaust in Primary School Education
By Alex White (@alex_j_white) It’s a sunny day in rural England. A football team is practising on the field outside, a group of schoolchildren are queuing for lunch, and I am working as a teaching assistant as a class of nine-year-olds learn about the Holocaust for the first time. The room is quiet, and I…
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A familiar tune: the Proms affair highlights Britain’s reluctance for critical self-reflection
By Daniel Adamson (@DanielEAdamson) Controversy was caused by the recent announcement that orchestral versions of Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory would feature at the Last Night of the Proms, in a break with the traditional singing of the anthems. Eventually, this decision was reversed by the BBC. According to the broadcaster, the…
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Tucker Carlson in Budapest: A Flirtation with Fascism and an Affront to Memory
By Alex Sessa (@AlexSessa2) Nearly eight decades after Hungary’s systematic destruction of its Jewish population, far-right spokespersons are perpetrating their own vicious assault against Holocaust memory. In August of this year, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson hosted his cable talk show from Budapest for an entire week. While there, he went so far to praise Hungary’s…
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Auschwitz and a Rose Garden: The Zone of Interest is a Brave, but Flawed Film
by Beatrice Leeming There exists an established filmic tradition that has dealt with the ethics of representation and subscribed to the pedagogical power of cinema. The Holocaust has been documented and dramatized with progressive intensity since its occurrence. The perpetrators have been satirised, the victims heroized, and the narrative memorialised in both powerful and problematic…
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Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City
By Sietske van der Veen ( Twitter/X: @SBvanderVeen; Bluesky: @sbvanderveen.bsky.social) The documentary Occupied City (De bezette stad,2023) contrasts everyday life in Amsterdam’s cityscape today, visualised in the moving images, with the horrors of World War II, described by the voice-over. Through this layering in sound and vision, the 4.5-hour film made by Steve McQueen and…
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