Introduction

Writing the Persecution and Extermination of the Jews Before, During and After the Shoah

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0325/cont_abam01

Keywords:

Persecution, Shoah, Exilic writing, Writer as a witness, Nazism, Soviet regime

Abstract

The purpose of the present special issue of the journal S:I.M.O.N. – Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation is to examine literary and artistic responses to the rise of antisemitism in the 1930s, an ideology and politics that led to the systematic persecution and extermination of Europe’s Jews. The issue focuses, first, on the period preceding the war and, second, the period following the war. This approach facilitates a dual investigation: Is literature (and other media) able to project an aftermath as the consequence of ongoing events? And how was the aftermath perceived in the years following the Shoah? This special issue aims to raise initial questions on a vast subject that is still under-explored in certain regions, and it highlights the literature of peripheral places and forgotten writers and artists.

Author Biographies

  • Anke Bosse, University of Klagenfurt

    Anke Bosse was born in Hanover, Germany, and since 2015, is Full Professor of German-speaking Literature at the University of Klagenfurt and the Head of the Musil Institute for Literary Research/Carinthian Archives for Literature. After studying in Göttingen, Munich, and Avignon, she was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, earning her PhD in 1996. Between 1997 and 2015, she was Full professor at the University of Namur, Belgium. She has researched and published in the fields of textual scholarship, hybrid editions, “critique génétique” and literary writing, intertextuality, intermediality, and interculturality. Among her 160 publications are: ed. with Atinati Mamatsashvili, Littérature et totalitarisme I. Écrire pour témoigner, 2014; and ed. with Atinati Mamatsashvili, Littérature et totalitarisme II. Vers une conception du phénomène, 2020. She is a member of Academia.Net – Profiles of Leading Woman Scientists.

    Email: Anke.Bosse@aau.at

  • Atinati Mamatsashvili, Ilia State Uni versity (Tbilisi, Georgia)

    Atinati Mamatsashvili is a full Professor of Comparative Literature at Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia) and was a Senior Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (2023–2024). She completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at Aix-Marseille University (France). Her research focuses on literature and totalitarian regimes (Nazi and Soviet), French & Francophone literature, and antisemitism. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the book series Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (CHLEL) in the framework of the ICLA published by Benjamins in Amsterdam. She has been a visiting scholar at NIAS – the Netherlands Institutes for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Amsterdam), the Centre national de littérature (Luxembourg), the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Aix-Marseille Université, Sorbonne Université, and Université de Namur.

    Email: atinati_mamatsashvili@iliauni.edu.ge

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Published

2025-09-02

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3 (2025): S:I.M.O.N. – SHOAH: INTERVENTION. METHODS. DOCUMENTATION.

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INTRODUCTION

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How to Cite

“Introduction: Writing the Persecution and Extermination of the Jews Before, During and After the Shoah”. 2025. S: I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 12 (3): 4-11. https://doi.org/10.23777/sn.0325/cont_abam01.