Howard Jacobson: 'A feelgood Holocaust exploits the dead and demeans the living'

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It once felt impious just to mention Auschwitz. Now, 75 years after its liberation, the death camp has spawned a literary subgenre – and Hitler is in Oscar-nominated comedy Jojo Rabbit. Are we betraying the dead?

Silence is the angel with which literature wrestles. The silence of inadequacy to the task of expression – TS Eliot’s struggle against “last year’s words” while “next year’s words await another voice”. The silence of moral hesitancy or humane consideration. The silence enjoined by laws of blasphemy, or fears of persecution. The silence of bad conscience or exhaustion. The silence of tact.

 

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Having been to Auschwitz recently, I can assure Mr Jacobson that there are no trinkets, and no trains, and that - far from being a tourist destination - it is an educational and spiritual experience which everyone there engaged with the utmost solemnity.

Ma va scopare il mare, va, Guardian delle mie babbucce. Passi il tuo tempo ad accusare gli ebrei vivi e poi fai il tartufo lacrimoso se uno di loro osa levarsi la soddisfazione di sfottere i nazi. E lo fai usando il termine 'olocausto', di per sé offensivo. Shoah, si dice, Shoah.

I feel we should also not forget, that 50 Million died in that war, 30 Million of them, Russian.

I don't like what they are doing. 😢

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