Socially Situated Empathy: Muslim Minority Emotions for the Holocaust in Germany

Author(s): Esra Ozyurek

Type: Research abstract

Department: European Institute

Exhibit no: 66


By focusing on instances in which the emotional reactions of Muslim minority Germans towards the Holocaust – specifically fear and envy – are judged as not empathetic enough and morally wrong, this article explores how idealized empathy assumes a subject position of relative privilege.