Marking evil : Holocaust memory in the global age

Author(s)

• Goldberg, Amos
• Hazan, Haim

Bibliographic Information

Marking evil : Holocaust memory in the global age

edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan

（Making sense of history, v. 21）

Berghahn Books, 2019

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

"First paperback edition published in 2019"-- t.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB27427561
• ISBN:
  • 9781789200560
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 367 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D804.348
  • DC23 : 940.53/18
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Collective memory -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA58211752