...Holocaust memory) he leaves no real room for choice: [C]ollective memory is in crucial senses ahistorical. To understand something historically is to be aware...including moral ambiguities, of protagonists' motives and behaviour. Collective memory simplifies; sees events from a single, committed perspective; is impatient...

...inclined to construct memory as history's bad other and to demonise it. To quote Novick once more: 'To understand something historically is to be aware...including moral ambiguities, of protagonists' motives and behaviour. Collective memory simplifies; sees events from a single, committed perspective; is impatient...

...onderscheid maken: 'Collective memory simplifies, sees events from a single, committed perspectivc, is impatient with ambiguities of any kind, reduces...archetypes. Historical consciousness, by its nature, focusses on the historicity of events - that they took place then and not now, that they grew out of...

...following comments by the historian Peter Novick (1999), who built on the ideas of Halbwachs to argue: To understand something historically is to be aware...of any kind; reduces events to mythic archetypes, (pp. 3-4) Contemporary discussions of how history differs from memory have been at the heart of recent...

...not mean that it is necessarily more suitable than outside advice — it must be fit for the purpose. perspective; is impatient with ambiguities of any kind; reduces events to mythic archetypes' (Bean cited in Manne 2007: 26). The changing demographic of rural populations, the questioning of the...