A Date, a Place, a Name: Jacques Derrida's Holocaust Translations

In turn, the stakes of Derrida's textual interpretations/ translations involve the philosopher's own passages across the linguistic frontier separating his French "monolingualism" from Benjamin, Celan, and Heidegger's mother tongue. [...] as I will argue, these bordercrossings always traverse, touch, and circumnavigate certain Holocaust contexts, which are populated by the spectral presence of a host of other ghosts.