ISBN:
9781350332324
,
9781350332317
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 245 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bartov, Omer Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine
DDC:
940.53/18
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives History and criticism
;
Genocide Historiography
;
Collective memory
;
Collective memory Political aspects
;
Local history
;
Israel
;
Völkermord
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Ethnozid
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Genocide & ethnic cleansing
;
Genozide und ethnische Säuberung
;
Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
;
HISTORY / Holocaust
;
HISTORY / Middle East / Israel
;
Holocaust
;
Middle Eastern history
;
POL061000
;
The Holocaust
;
Israel
;
Palestine
;
Palästina
Abstract:
"A multifaceted exploration of the Holocaust which connects its relationship with genocide, the importance of first-person histories of atrocity, and links to the 1948 Palestinian Nakba together in unprecedented fashion"
Abstract:
This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with each other, whilst convincingly arguing for the importance of local history and individual testimony in grasping the nature of mass murder. He goes on to critically examine how legal discourse has served to both uncover and deny individual and national complicity. Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine outlines how first-person histories provide a better understanding of events otherwise perceived as inexplicable and, lastly, draws on the author s own personal trajectory to consider links between the fate of Jews in World War II and the plight of Palestinians during and in the aftermath of the establishment of the state of Israel. Bartov demonstrates that these five perspectives, rarely if ever previously discussed in a single book, are inextricably linked, and shed much light on each other. Thus the Holocaust and other genocides must be seen as related catastrophes in the modern era; understanding such vast human tragedies necessitates scrutinizing them on the local and personal scale; this in turn calls for historical empathy, accomplished via personal-biographical introspection; and true, open-minded, and rigorous introspection, without which historical understanding tends toward obfuscation, brings to light uncomfortable yet clarifying connections, such as that between the Holocaust and the Nakba, the mass flight and expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 237-238 und Index
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