The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians

Sa'ed Atshan; Katharina Galor

Published by Duke University Press 2020

The Moral Triangle

Germans, Israelis, Palestinians

Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012016

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About this book

Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to explore the asymmetric relationships between Germans and Israeli and Palestinian immigrants in the context of official German policies, public discourse, and the impact of coming to terms with the past.

Author / Editor information

Sa’ed Atshan is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emory University He is the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique.

Katharina Galor is Hirschfeld Visiting Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Urban Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology.

Reviews

“Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor are engaged in rich and rare dialogues—with each other and their informants—that redefine the ‘moral triangle’ between Palestinians, Jews, and Germans as they act, react, interact, resist, and reconcile in Berlin. In a spirit of affective affiliation they draw on psychic compulsions and political circumstances that haunt the histories of cohabitation. Survival, trauma, grace, forgiveness, desperation, and hospitality are issues that stir the conscience and consciousness of this remarkable book. The Moral Triangle exceeds its geometry to provide a many-sided, plural perspective on living together in difference with dignity.”

-- Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

“The Moral Triangle takes up one of the most complex topics in the contemporary world: the ethically fraught relationships between Germans, Israelis, and Palestinians. But Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor's book is also much more than an original and urgently needed study; it is itself an ethical document that exemplifies how scholarship can confront thorny moral and political problems with generosity, nuance, and a strong sense of restorative justice. This uniquely powerful book will make a significant and salutary intervention for both academic and general readerships.”

-- Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

“[The Moral Triangle] shines in its impressionistic and fast-paced reportage style. Galor and Atshan tap into narratives of perpetrators and victims, trauma and its afterlives, responsibility and reconciliation, morality, and memory.”

-- Anna-E. Younes Journal of Palestine Studies

“Guilt and a sense of culpability for their country’s past crimes against the Jewish people have led many Germans—particularly the country’s government—to adopt highly supportive positions vis-a-vis Israel. In The Moral Triangle, scholars Saed Atshan and Katharina Galor dare to explore the sensitive intricacies of this issue. . . . The results of their work are fascinating and groundbreaking.”

-- Dale Sprusansky Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Prologue Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. The Triangle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Trauma, Holocaust, Nakba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. Victim and Perpetrator Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. Germany and Israel/Palestine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
4. Germany and Migration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
5. Elusive Demography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
6. Neue Heimat Berlin? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
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8. Racism, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
9. Urban Spaces and Voices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
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11. Between Guilt and Censorship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Conclusion. Restorative Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 256

eBook

Published: May 18, 2020
ISBN: 9781478012016