Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine : first-person history in times of crisis
This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with eac...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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London New York Oxford New Delhi Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic,
2023
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| Sujets: | Personal narratives Genocide Collective memory Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Local history |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (259 pages) |
Table des matières:
- Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I Writing Atrocity 1. Historical Uniqueness and Integrated History 2. Eastern Europe as the Site of Genocide Part II Local History 3. Reconstructing Genocide on the Local Level 4. Testimonies as Historical Documents Part III Justice and Denial 5. The Holocaust in the Courtroom 6. Memory Laws as a Tool of Forgetting Part IV First Person Histories 7. H. G. Adler's (Un)Bildungsroman 8. Leaving the Shtetl to Change the World Part V When Memory Comes 9. Return and Displacement in Israel-Palestine 10. My Twisted Path to Auschwitz, and Back 11. Building a Future by Telling the Past Bibliography Index