Sublime

Ever since the Holocaust we are all like priests who have become contaminated by death.

emphasis on the collective nature of social consciousness and his assertion that a collectively imagined past is crucial for the unity of a society, while a shared past is the essential element for the reconstruction of social solidarity. Halhwachs,

I suggest we consider historical witnessing as an act of imagining subjectivity, for conjuring subjectivities in the photographic archive can expose the costs of citizenship for both men.

objectivity

Walter Benjamin wrote shortly before his death in 1940, “There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”

On December 17, 1942, the British foreign secretary, Anthony Eden, declares in Westminster that Nazi Germany is exterminating European Jewry.

the fear that the very legitimacy of the Jewish state is eroding;