UID:
edocfu_9959797975602883
Format:
1 online resource (424 pages)
ISBN:
0-231-54448-0
Series Statement:
Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; 39
Uniform Title:
Shoʼah ṿeha-nakbah. English
Content:
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive historical global contexts of nationalism and colonialism, The Holocaust and the Nakba explores the historical, political, and cultural intersections between them. The majority of the contributors argue that these intersections are embedded in cultural imaginations, colonial and asymmetrical power relations, realities, and structures. Focusing on them paves the way for a new political, historical, and moral grammar that enables a joint Arab-Jewish dwelling and supports historical reconciliation in Israel/Palestine.This book does not seek to draw a parallel or comparison between the Holocaust and Nakba or to merely inaugurate a "dialogue" between them. Instead, it searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections. The book features prominent international contributors, including a foreword by Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury on the centrality of the Holocaust and Nakba in the essential struggle of humanity against racism, and an afterword by literary scholar Jacqueline Rose on the challenges and contributions of the linkage between the Holocaust and Nakba for power to shift and a world of justice and equality to be created between the two peoples. The Holocaust and the Nakba is the first extended and collective scholarly treatment in English of these two constitutive traumas together.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Foreword /
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Introduction. The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Syntax of History, Memory, and Political Thought /
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PART I. The Holocaust and the Nakba: Enabling Conditions to a New Historical and Political Syntax --
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1. Harbingers of Jewish and Palestinian Disasters: European Nation-State Building and Its Toxic Legacies, 1912-1948 /
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2. Muslims (Shoah, Nakba) /
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3. Benjamin, the Holocaust, and the Question of Palestine /
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4. When Yaffa Met (J)Yaffa: Intersections Between the Holocaust and the Nakba in the Shadow of Zionism /
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5. Holocaust/Nakba and the Counterpublic of Memory /
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PART II. The Holocaust and the Nakba: History and Counterhistory --
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6. When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History-Jaffa, 1949: Between the Holocaust and the Nakba /
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7. A Bold Voice Raised Above the Raging Waves: Palestinian Intellectual Najati Sidqi and His Battle with Nazi Doctrine at the Time of World War II /
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8. What Does Exile Look Like? Transformations in the Linkage Between the Shoah and the Nakba /
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9. National Narratives of Suffering and Victimhood: Methods and Ethics of Telling the Past as Personal Political History /
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PART III. The Holocaust and the Nakba: The Deployment of Traumatic Signifiers --
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10. Culture of Memory: Holocaust and Nakba Images in the Works of Lea Grundig and Abed Abdi /
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11. Ma'abara: Mizrahim Between Shoah and Nakba /
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12. From Revenge to Empathy: Abba Kovner from Jewish Destruction to Palestinian Destruction /
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PART IV. On Elias Khoury's Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam: Narrating the Nakba with the Holocaust --
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13. Novel as Contrapuntal Reading Elias Khoury's Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam /
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14. Writing Silence: Reading Khoury's Novel Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam /
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15. Silence on a Sizzling Tin Roof: A Translator's Point of View on Children of the Ghetto /
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Afterword: The Holocaust and the Nakba /
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Bibliography --
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Contributors --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-231-18296-1
Language:
English
