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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rebecca WittmannPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781487508494ISBN 10: 1487508492 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 25 October 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Rebecca Wittmann Part I: Eichmann on Trial 1. Coming to Terms with the “Banality of Evil”: Implications of the Eichmann Trial for Social Scientific Research on Perpetrator Behavior James E. Waller 2. From History to Story: When the “Architect” of the Holocaust Became his Own “Witness” Fabien Théofilakis 3. Revisiting Eichmann and Zionism: Contexts, Strange Encounters, and their Afterlives Michael Berkowitz Part II: Eichmann and Jurisprudence 4. Prosecuting “Crimes against the Jewish People”: The Eichmann Trial and the History of a Legal Concept Laura Jockusch 5. The Eichmann Trial: Toward a Jurisprudence of Eyewitness Testimonies of Atrocity? Leora Bilsky 6. What Makes a Prosecution an International Landmark Trial? Reflections on the Tensions between Legal Proceedings, Politics, and Historical Facts Ruth Bettina Birn Part III: Eichmann and Geopolitics 7.The Eichmann Trial's Impact Reconsidered Boaz Cohen 8. The Eichmann Trial and the Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel: A Positive or Negative Influence? Dominique Trimbur 9. The Impact of the Eichmann Trial on Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany Roni Stauber 10. The Impact of the Eichmann Affair on Arab Holocaust Discourse Esther Webman Part IV: Representing Eichmann 11. Remaking Eichmann: Memories of Mass Murder and the Transatlantic Student Movements of the 1960s Thomas Pegelow Kaplan 12. From 2-Inch to YouTube: The Audiovisual Documentation and the Broadcast of the Eichmann Trial Liat BenhabibReviewsThis groundbreaking collection will importantly serve to liberate the canonic Eichmann trial from the monopolistic control exerted by Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. We come away from Wittmann's volume with a fresh appreciation and an enriched understanding of the preeminent trial to address the crimes of the Holocaust. - Lawrence R. Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College This must-read book concerns an event that was significant in its own right and remains a touchstone of debate over the weightiest matters: the Holocaust, the motivation of perpetrators of genocide, and the functions of the law in politics and in coming to terms with mass atrocity. Substantial but not bulky, intelligent but accessible, Rebecca Wittmann's excellent volume brings together a range of perspectives by a fine cast of scholars. - Donald Bloxham, Richard Pares Professor of European History, University of Edinburgh This groundbreaking collection will importantly serve to liberate the canonic Eichmann trial from the monopolistic control exerted by Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. We come away from Wittmann's volume with a fresh appreciation and an enriched understanding of the preeminent trial to address the crimes of the Holocaust. - Lawrence R. Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College This must-read book concerns an event that was significant in its own right and remains a touchstone of debate over the weightiest matters: the Holocaust, the motivation of perpetrators of genocide, and the functions of the law in politics and in coming to terms with mass atrocity. Substantial but not bulky, intelligent but accessible, Rebecca Wittmann's excellent volume brings together a range of perspectives by a fine cast of scholars. - Donald Bloxham, Richard Pares Professor of European History, University of Edinburgh """This excellent collection of essays revisits the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann from disciplinary perspectives ranging from law to history to psychology to film studies."" -- Norman J.W. Goda, University of Florida * <em>Central European History</em> * “By offering multifaceted views on the former aspects, the volume does an excellent job in summarizing an ever more complex subject of Holocaust studies.” -- Thomas Kühne * <em>Clark University German Studies Review</em> *" Author InformationRebecca Wittmann is an associate professor of History at the University of Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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