Additional Information
Book Details
Abstract
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.
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).
Haim Hazan is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University, where he is also co-director of the Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life. He is the author of several books, including The Limbo People; Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions; Managing Change in Old Age; A Paradoxical Community; From First Principles; Simulated Dreams: Israeli Youth and Virtual Zionism, and Serendipity in Anthropological Research: The Nomadic Turn (edited with Esther Herzog).
“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
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marking Evil | i | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Figures | viii | ||
| Preface | x | ||
| Section I — Introductions | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1 — Ethics, Identity, and Antifundamental Fundamentalism: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age (a Cultural-Political Introduction) | 3 | ||
| Chapter 2 — Globalization versus Holocaust: An Anthropological Conundrum | 30 | ||
| Section II — How Global Is Holocaust Memory? | 45 | ||
| Chapter 3 — The Holocaust Is Not—and Is Not Likely to Become—a Global Memory | 47 | ||
| Chapter 4 — The Holocaust as a Symbolic Manual: The French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Global Memories | 56 | ||
| Chapter 5 — \"After Auschwitz\": A Constitutive Turning Point in Moral Philosophy | 70 | ||
| Chapter 6 — Cosmopolitan Body: The Holocaust as Route to the Globally Human | 99 | ||
| Section III — Memory, Trauma, and Testimony: The Holocaust and Non-Western Memories | 119 | ||
| Chapter 7 — Holocaust Memories and Cosmopolitan Practices: Humanitarian Witnessing between Emergencies and the Catastrophe | 121 | ||
| Chapter 8 — The Global Semiotics of Trauma and Testimony: A Comparative Study of Jewish Israeli, Cambodian Canadian, and Cambodian Genocide Descendant Legacies | 146 | ||
| Chapter 9 — Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness | 171 | ||
| Chapter 10 — Commemorating the Twentieth Century: The Holocaust and Nonviolent Struggle in Global Discourse | 193 | ||
| Chapter 11 — Rethinking the Politics of the Past: Multidirectional Memory in the Archives of Implication | 211 | ||
| Section IV — The Poetics of the Global Event: A Critical View | 231 | ||
| Chapter 12 — Pain and Pleasure in Poetic Representations of the Holocaust | 233 | ||
| Chapter 13 — Auschwitz: George Tabori's Short Joke | 266 | ||
| Chapter 14 — The Law of Dispersion: A Reading of W. G. Sebald's Prose | 284 | ||
| Chapter 15 — Holocaust Envy: Globalization of the Holocaust in Israeli Discourse | 296 | ||
| Section V — Closure | 317 | ||
| Chapter 16 — Messages from a Present Past: The Kristallnacht as Symbolic Turning Point in Nazi Rule | 319 | ||
| Chapter 17 — A Personal Postscript | 345 | ||
| Contributors | 354 | ||
| Index | 358 |