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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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Library at the Katz Center - Stacks 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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