Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis 1350332321, 9781350332324

This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Hol

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Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis
 1350332321, 9781350332324

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Intorduction
PART I Writing Atrocity
CHAPTER 1 Historical Uniqueness and Integrated History
CHAPTER 2 Eastern Europe as the Site of Genocide
PART II Local History
CHAPTER 3 Reconstructing Genocide on the Local Level
CHAPTER 4 Testimonies as Historical Documents
PART III Justice and Denial
CHAPTER 5 The Holocaust in the Courtroom
CHAPTER 6 Memory Laws as a Tool of Forgetting
PART IV First-Person Histories
CHAPTER 7 H. G. Adler’s (Un)Bildungsroman
CHAPTER 8 Leaving the Shtetl to Change the World
PART V When Memory Comes
CHAPTER 9 Return and Displacement in Israel-Palestine
CHAPTER 10 My Twisted Path to Auschwitz, and Back
CHAPTER 11 Building the Future by Telling the Past
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

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