Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age

Published by Berghahn Books 2015

Marking Evil

Holocaust Memory in the Global Age

Edited by: Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan

Volume 21 in the series Making Sense of History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782386209

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor 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).

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).

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).

Reviews

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Preface Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Section I INTRODUCTIONS
CHAPTER 1 Ethics, Identity, and Antifundamental Fundamentalism: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age (a Cultural-Political Introduction) Amos Goldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
CHAPTER 2 Globalization versus Holocaust: An Anthropological Conundrum Haim Hazan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Section II HOW GLOBAL IS HOLOCAUST MEMORY?
CHAPTER 3 The Holocaust Is Not— and Is Not Likely to Become— a Global Memory Peter Novick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
CHAPTER 4 The Holocaust as a Symbolic Manual: The French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Global Memories Alon Confino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
CHAPTER 5 “After Auschwitz” A Constitutive Turning Point in Moral Philosophy Ronit Peleg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
CHAPTER 6 Cosmopolitan Body: The Holocaust as Route to the Globally Human Nigel Rapport Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
CHAPTER 8 The Global Semiotics of Trauma and Testimony: A Comparative Study of Jewish Israeli, Cambodian Canadian, and Cambodian Genocide Descendant Legacies Carol A. Kidron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
CHAPTER 9 Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness Louise Bethlehem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
CHAPTER 10 Commemorating the Twentieth Century: The Holocaust and Nonviolent Struggle in Global Discourse Tamar Katriel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
CHAPTER 11 Rethinking the Politics of the Past: Multidirectional Memory in the Archives of Implication Michael Rothberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Section IV THE POETICS OF THE GLOBAL EVENT A Critical View
CHAPTER 12 Pain and Pleasure in Poetic Representations of the Holocaust Rina Dudai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
CHAPTER 13 Auschwitz: George Tabori’s Short Joke Shulamith Lev-Aladgem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
CHAPTER 14 The Law of Dispersion: A Reading of W. G. Sebald’s Prose Jakob Hessing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
CHAPTER 15 Holocaust Envy: Globalization of the Holocaust in Israeli Discourse Batya Shimony Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
Section V CLOSURE
CHAPTER 16 Messages from a Present Past: The Kristallnacht as Symbolic Turning Point in Nazi Rule Emanuel Marx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
CHAPTER 17 A Personal Postscript Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	354
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 384
Keywords: Holocaust; Holocaust Memory; Memory Studies; Collective Memory; Genocide; Postwar; Trauma

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Published: May 1, 2015
ISBN: 9781782386209