historian is the scholar who studies and writes about the historical past.
scholar who studies and writes about the historical past?
historian
in line with this conception, kulka made an effort to avoid using the terms "shoah" or "holocaust", neither of which, in his opinion, accurately encapsulates this period within the continuity of jewish history and does not convey its singularity. instead, he refers to "the history of the jews under the national-socialist regime," and, more frequently, to the "final solution." the first phrase derives from his methodological approach, holding that this period should be studied like any other and in the context of its historical continuity, in the three dimensions mentioned above. as for the term "final solution," kulka considers it the most precise and most telling articulation of the teleological meaning of nazi ideology and of the purpose underlying the realization of its goal: the termination of the historical existence of the jewish people and the extermination of each individual jew, as well as the eradication of the "jewish spirit" ("jüdischer geist") manifested in the european cultural heritage. it is here, that kulka identifies the singularity of this period in jewish and human history. as a scholar, kulka has strictly separated the study of the historical past from his personal biography during the second world war. as he noted in 2010, after completing the last of his major research projects to date, he regarded his biographical past irrelevant to historical research, and intertwining the two spheres as illegitimate. it was only in 2012, that he decided to publish a book bearing a different character. in this work, kulka explores his memory images from the years he spent in the ghetto of theresienstadt and in auschwitz birkenau, and reflects on them as a historian and thinker. first published in english in 2013 as "landscapes of the metropolis of death", reflections on memory and imagination, the book has been widely translated.
otto dov kulka
the area is closely linked with the history of armenian nation and glorious episodes of historical past starting from the periods of polytheistic pagan and hellenistic culture. the reserve preserves ancient cultural amenities, historical-architectural monuments, unique plant and animal species, splendid diversity of scientific landscapes.in the historical past, the present territory of the reserve was included in ayrarat state of mets hayk kingdom. in the middle ages the state was one of the densely populated and lively areas. it was the area of central provinces ayrarat and syunik of ancient armenia (great hayq as per 7th century map), the residences of kings – capital dvin and artashat, the residence of catholicosate (havuts tar) – the supreme patriarch of all armenians, as well as the arena of historical events. it was also the place where famous personalities of religious and secular life, such as grigor lusavorich (240-326), grigor magistros (11th century), gevorg marzpetuni (10th century) and others lived and acted. the silk road passed through the reserve territory. the evidences of the historical past – preserved or partly destroyed remnants of secular and spiritual structures (fortresses, castles, churches, cross-stones, remnants of abandoned villages, grave-yards and others) together with the natural peculiarities of the area make khosrov forest reserve more famous and attractive. there are various ancient, natural monuments and other natural reserves located in and in the neighbourhood of the reserve for tourists and visitors to see and they are worth seeing. among them include the: aghjots vank, kakavaberd, havuts tar, garni gorge, garni temple and others.
khosrov forest state reserve