US Guilt

[joanna bujes]

At 12:21 AM 04/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>While po-mo is rightly hammered on this list, it seems to me that
>here is an issue that really could do with some clearly written (if
>that's a possibility with po-mo), factually grounded work on how this
>whole narrative has been constructed and why it has had such
>ascendancy in more recent times -- all these Holocaust Studies
>programmes, Holocaust memorials, etc. have had a very short history,
>haven't they? in fact dating from a time when most survivors are
>gone. One wonders what Primo Levi made of it all.

I don't exactly see how po-mo would help. But thanks for your post, which I 
thought was very clear and informative.  I did not know about the Kastner 
trial.

Joanna