UID:
almafu_9961342798002883
Format:
1 online resource (199 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-5017-3507-1
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1-5017-3508-X
Series Statement:
Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law
Content:
The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s-covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder.By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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ILLUSTRATIONS --
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INTRODUCTION --
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1. THE RIGHTEOUS AVENGERS. The Tehlirian and Schwarzbard Trials, 1921 and 1927 --
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2. THE CAMP SURVIVOR. The Libel Cases of Victor Kravchenko and David Rousset, 1949 and 1950-51 --
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3. THE HOLOCAUST WITNESS. The Eichmann Trial and Its Aftermath --
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4. THE GLOBAL VICTIM AND THE COUNTERWITNESS --
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CONCLUSION --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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INDEX
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5017-3509-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5017-3506-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.7591/9781501735080
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