The Holocaust and the Nakba : : A New Grammar of Trauma and History / / ed. by Amos Goldberg, Bashir Bashir.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Abu-Remaileh, Refqa,; Anidjar, Gil,; Bartov, Omer,; Bashir, Bashir,; Ben-Yehuda, Omri,; Ben-Zvi, Tal,; Confino, Alon,; Fischer, Yochi,; Ghanim, Honaida,; Goldberg, Amos,; Hever, Hannan,; Kabha, Mustafa,; Khoury, Elias,; Khoury, Nadim,; Levene, Mark,; Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon,; Rose, Jacqueline,; Shenhav, Yehouda,; Zreik, Raef,
• TeilnehmendeR: Abu-Remaileh, Refqa.; Anidjar, Gil.; Bartov, Omer.; Ben-Yehuda, Omri.; Ben-Zvi, Tal.; Confino, Alon.; Fischer, Yochi.; Ghanim, Honaida.; Hever, Hannan.; Kabha, Mustafa.; Khoury, Elias.; Khoury, Nadim.; Levene, Mark.; Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon.; Rose, Jacqueline.; Shenhav, Yehouda.; Zreik, Raef.
• HerausgeberIn: Bashir, Bashir,; Goldberg, Amos,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; 39
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 33 b&w illustrations

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 his...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction. The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Syntax of History, Memory, and Political Thought
• PART I. The Holocaust and the Nakba: Enabling Conditions to a New Historical and Political Syntax
• 1. Harbingers of Jewish and Palestinian Disasters: European Nation-State Building and Its Toxic Legacies, 1912-1948
• 2. Muslims (Shoah, Nakba)
• 3. Benjamin, the Holocaust, and the Question of Palestine
• 4. When Yaffa Met (J)Yaffa: Intersections Between the Holocaust and the Nakba in the Shadow of Zionism
• 5. Holocaust/Nakba and the Counterpublic of Memory
• PART II. The Holocaust and the Nakba: History and Counterhistory
• 6. When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History-Jaffa, 1949: Between the Holocaust and the Nakba
• 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
• 8. What Does Exile Look Like? Transformations in the Linkage Between the Shoah and the Nakba
• 9. National Narratives of Suffering and Victimhood: Methods and Ethics of Telling the Past as Personal Political History
• PART III. The Holocaust and the Nakba: The Deployment of Traumatic Signifiers
• 10. Culture of Memory: Holocaust and Nakba Images in the Works of Lea Grundig and Abed Abdi
• 11. Ma'abara: Mizrahim Between Shoah and Nakba
• 12. From Revenge to Empathy: Abba Kovner from Jewish Destruction to Palestinian Destruction
• PART IV. On Elias Khoury's Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam: Narrating the Nakba with the Holocaust
• 13. Novel as Contrapuntal Reading Elias Khoury's Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam
• 14. Writing Silence: Reading Khoury's Novel Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam
• 15. Silence on a Sizzling Tin Roof: A Translator's Point of View on Children of the Ghetto
• Afterword: The Holocaust and the Nakba
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index