Between Recognition and Exclusion. The Effects of the Décret Infâme on Jewish Emancipation in Luxembourg

in Frishman, Judith; Fuchshuber, Thorsten (Eds.) Samuel Hirsch, Religionsphilosoph, Emanzipationsverfechter und radikaler Reformer : Jüdische Identität im 19. Jahrhundert am Beispiel von Werk und Wirkung des ersten Oberrabbiners Luxemburgs (2022)

“Crowning of the democratic edifice”? — Public discourses on referendums in Luxembourg since the First World War

in Topos. Journal for philosophy and cultural studies (2021), (1), 3254

The contribution gives an oversight over the four series of referenda that have taken place in Luxembourg since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1919. For each date, the historical background ... [more ▼]

The contribution gives an oversight over the four series of referenda that have taken place in Luxembourg since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1919. For each date, the historical background, the main actors, the controverse positions as well as the impact on Luxembourgish society are explored. Thereby, the article shows the political processes linked to the organisation of referenda. At the same time, it presents the evolution of the discourses in Luxembourg on referenda as an expression of political conflicts as well as more generally on referendum as a political instrument. Referenda seem to have been used on one hand in situations where parliament could not play its role or was suspected not to be willing to do so, on the other hand to clarify questions that seemed so important that the voters had to be asked directly for their opinion. Whereas the current conclusion that referendum campaigns contribute to show or even to deepen societal polarisations is true also for the grand-duchy, one of the more notable findings of the Luxembourgish case is that this has not retained, at least in the last decades, the utilisation of the instrument of referendum. Especially concerning matters linked to the subject of democratic or state structures, the government seems to have preferred to let the voters give their point of view, although the risk of polarisation was given and new anti-government movements often grew from the referendum campaigns. In contrast to the relative success of the referendum in the last hundred years, other instruments of direct political participation have been sparsely developed. [less ▲]

« Die Unterzeichneten bitten Sie, demnächst die überlebte Verfassung von 1868 zu ändern. » Arbeiterbewegung, Frauen und Demokratisierung

in Frieseisen, Claude; Moes, Régis; Polfer, Michel (Eds.) et al #wielewatmirsinn - 100 Joer allgemengt Wahlrecht. 100 ans de suffrage universel au Luxembourg (1919-2019) (2019)

Niedergerissene Scheidewand? Die Bedeutung der Religionspolitik Wilhelm I. für die jüdische Minderheit in Luxemburg

in Fickers, Andreas; Franz, Norbert; Laux, Stefan (Eds.) Repression, Reform und Neuordnung im Zeitalter der Revolutionen. Die Folgen des Wiener Kongresses für Westeuropa (2019)

Mit den Haien streiten. Frauen und Gender in Luxemburg seit 1940 = femmes et genre au Luxembourg depuis 1940

Book published by Kaipibara (2018)

Verspätete Verbürgerlichung : Politische Partizipation Luxemburger Juden im 19. Jh. im europäischen Vergleich

in Franz, Norbert; Fuchshuber, Thorsten; Kmec, Sonja (Eds.) et al Identitätsbildung und Partizipation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Luxemburg im europäischen Kontext (2016)

Der Umgang mit der Shoah im Nachkriegs-Luxemburg

in Franz, Norbert; Fuchshuber, Thorsten; Kmec, Sonja (Eds.) et al Identitätsbildung und Partizipation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Luxemburg im europäischen Kontext (2016)

Le rôle de l’école publique dans la participation sociétale des membres de la communauté juive au XIXe siècle

in Fuchshuber, Thorsten; Wagener, Renée (Eds.) Émancipation, Éclosion, Persécution : Le développement de la communauté juive luxembourgeoise de la Révolution française à la 2e Guerre mondiale (2014)

"Méi Sozialismus!" Lydie Schmit und die LSAP 1970-1988

Book published by Fondation Lydie Schmit (2013)

Peripheral memories. Public and private forms of experiencing and narrating the past

Book published by transcript (2012)

After a period of intensive work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field ... [more ▼]

After a period of intensive work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field of memory processes, namely those connected with war, persecution and expulsion. In this sense, the memory – or rather the trauma – of the Holocaust is paradigmatic for the entire research field. The Holocaust is furthermore increasingly understood as constitutive of a global memory community which transcends national memories and mediates universal values. The present volume diverges from this perspective by dealing also with everyday subjects of memory. This allows for a more complete view of the interdependencies between public and private memory and, more specifically, public and family memory. [less ▲]