Overview

Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization. This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the ways in which Holocaust-related matters still instigate public debate and academic deliberation. It contends that the contradiction between the totalizing logic of globalization and the assumed uniqueness of the Holocaust generates continued intellectual and practical discontent.

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Author:   Amos Goldberg ,  Haim Hazan
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   21
ISBN:  

9781789200560

ISBN 10:   1789200563
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   23 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan SECTION I: INTRODUCTIONS Chapter 1. Ethics, Identity and Anti-Fundamental Fundamentalism: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age (a cultural-political introduction) Amos Goldberg Chapter 2. Globalized Holocaust: An Anthropological Oxymoron (an anthropological- theoretical introduction) Haim Hazan SECTION II: HOW GLOBAL IS HOLOCAUST MEMORY? Chapter 3. The Holocaust isn’t--and isn’t Likely to Become--a Global Memory Peter Novick Chapter 4. The Holocaust as a Symbolic Manual: The French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Global Memories Alon Confino Chapter 5. “After Auschwitz”:A Constitutive Turning Point in Moral Philosophy Ronit Peleg Chapter 6. Cosmopolitan Body: the Holocaust as Route to the Globally Human Nigel Rapport SECTION III: MEMORY, TRAUMA AND TESTIMONY: THE HOLOCAUST AND NON-WESTERN MEMORIES Chapter 7. Holocaust Memories and Cosmopolitan Practices: Humanitarian Witnessing between Emergencies and the Catastrophe Michal Givoni Chapter 8. The Global Semiotics of Trauma and Testimony: A Comparative Study of Jewish-Israeli, Canadian-Cambodian and Cambodian Genocidal Descendant Legacies Carol Kidron Chapter 9. Genres of Identification:  Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness Louise Bethlehem Chapter 10. Commemorating the Twentieth Century: The Holocaust and Nonviolent Struggle in Global Discourse Tamar Katriel Chapter 11. Rethinking the Politics of the Past: Multidirectional Memory in the Archives of Implication Michael Rothberg SECTION IV: THE POETICS OF THE GLOBAL EVENT: A CRITICAL VIEW Chapter 12. Pain & Pleasure in Poetic Representations of the Holocaust Rina Dudai Chapter 13. Auschwitz: George Tabori’s Short Joke Shulamith Lev-Aladgem Chapter 14. The Law of Dispersion: a Reading of W.G. Sebald’s Prose Jacob Hessing Chapter 15. Holocaust Envy: Globalization of the Holocaust in Israeli Discourse Batya Shimony SECTION V: CLOSURE Chapter 16. The Kristallnacht as Symbolic Turning Point in Nazi Rule Emanuel Marx Chapter 17. A Personal Postscript Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi List of Contributors Index

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“Goldberg and Hazan must be congratulated on bringing together an important and exciting collection of essays that in their sheer interdisciplinary range are essential reading for scholars across the arts and humanities.” · Holocaust Studies “This is a superb, original, brave and powerful book… the readings of texts are fresh and provocative, and the book benefits from its wide range of approaches to the question of global memory… I was sent off in many different directions all at once after reading this—who can ask for more from a book, especially one on an ostensibly overcrowded field such as Holocaust Studies?” · Dan Stone, University of London

Goldberg and Hazan must be congratulated on bringing together an important and exciting collection of essays that in their sheer interdisciplinary range are essential reading for scholars across the arts and humanities. Holocaust Studies

Author Information

Amos Goldberg is the chair of the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is the author of Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing During the Holocaust (2017) and the co-editor with Bashir Bashir of The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Conflicting Historical Traumas (2018).

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