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Post-Zionism, post-Holocaust : three essays on denial, forgetting, and the delegitimation of Israel / Elhanan Yakira ; translated by Michael Swirsky.

Van Pelt Library DS113.4 .Y3513 2010
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Yakira, Elhanan.
Standardized Title:
Posṭ-Tsiyonut, posṭ-Shoʼah. English
Language:
English
Hebrew
Subjects (All):
Post-Zionism.
Holocaust denial--France.
Holocaust denial.
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
Arendt, Hannah.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
Zionism.
France.
Physical Description:
xiv, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
English edition.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010.
Summary:
Elhanan Yakira is currently Schulman Professor of Philosophy at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne in France.
Contents:
I Holocaust Denial and the Left 1
A True Story, Some Facts, and a Bit of Commentary 1
The Origins of an Ideological Perversion: The Anarcho-Pacifism of Paul Rassinier 5
The Meaning of a Metaphor: "Ideological Perversion" 15
Scholarship in the Service of Denial and Denial in the Service of the Revolution: Robert Paurisson and Pierre Guillaume 22
Holocaust Denial and the Struggle against Zionist Imperialism: SergeThion and Noam Chomsky 36
Holocaust Denial and Islamist Humanism 46
The Community and the Opprobrium 51
2 The Holocaust and the Good Israelis 63
Find the Differences 63
Excursus 1 Ideology and Historical Truth 89
The Holocaust as an Alibi 95
The Holocaust and the Collective Pathology of the Israelis 101
Excursus 2 What Is Wrong with Instrumentalizing the Holocaust? 120
The Accusation of Abandonment, Betrayal, and Exploitation 126
The International 137
Excursus 3 What Makes Auschwitz Unique and to What Is It Comparable? 153
On the Humanness of Auschwitz and Israeli Guilt 165
The Eichmann Trial and the Israeli Catastrophe 194
One More Remark 216
3 On the Political and the Antipolitical: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann, and Israel 220
Arendt and the Community of Opprobrium 220
Arendt and the Israeli Opprobrium 222
Arendt and Zionism: A Story of Misunderstanding 227
The Eichmann Trial: A Story of Failure 257
4 Postscript: 1967 or 1948? 303
Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism 308
A One-State Solution 319
The Moral Disaster 326
Last Word, or the Logic of the Pot 328.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780521111102
0521111102
9780521127868
0521127866
OCLC:
316824219

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