The Jews : history, memory, and the present
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The Jews : history, memory, and the present
（European perspectives）
Columbia University Press, c1996
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Juifs, la mémoire et le présent
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Juifs, la mémoire et le présent
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-307) and index
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ISBN 9780231102087
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Through this thorough history of the Jews, stretching as far back as the revolt against Roman rule in the second century BC, and moving forward through to the modern day, Vidal-Naquet aims to teach us that history and memory can and must be preserved for future generations.
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: pbk ISBN 9780231102094
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These essays treat a range of issues from the ancient Jewish revolt against Roman rule and the much-mythologized martyrdom at Masada, the French Revolution, and Marxism's difficulties with "the Jewish question," to Nazi genocide and the deep problems of representing it.
Table of Contents
Translator's Note Foreward by Paul Berman Preface to the English-Language Edition Part One: Origins and History 1. Forms of Political Activity in the Jewish World, Principally Around the First Century C.E. 2. Flavius Josephus and Masada 3. Flavius Josephus and the Prophets 4. Apropos of Zakhor Part Two: Emancipation and History 5. The Privilege of Liberty 6. Dreyfus in the Affair and in History 7. Jewish Prism, Marxist Prism Part Three: Destruction, Memory, and the Present 8. The Hero, the Historian, and Choice 9. The Historian and the Test of Murder 10. The Shoah's Challenge to History 11. On an Interpretation of the Great Massacre: Arno Mayer and the 'Final Solution' 12. And by the Power of a Word... 13. A Wonderful School... 14. The Harmonics of Szymon Laks 15. Presentation of a Document: The Journal of Attorney Lucien Vidal-Naquet Part Four: History, Memory, and the Present 16. Reflections at the Margins of a Tragedy 17. Return to Israel 18. 'Inquiry into a Massacre', by Amnon Kapeliouk 19. The Anti-Peace Colonists Part Five: Conclusion 20. Recollections of a Witness: Protestants and Jews During the Second World War in France Notes Index
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