The Moral Witness : Trials and Testimony after Genocide / Carolyn J. Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, Carolyn J., Author.

Series:

Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trials (Genocide).

Genocide survivors.

Witnesses.

Genocide--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genocide.

Genocide--Historiography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

1. THE RIGHTEOUS AVENGERS. The Tehlirian and Schwarzbard Trials, 1921 and 1927

2. THE CAMP SURVIVOR. The Libel Cases of Victor Kravchenko and David Rousset, 1949 and 1950-51

3. THE HOLOCAUST WITNESS. The Eichmann Trial and Its Aftermath

4. THE GLOBAL VICTIM AND THE COUNTERWITNESS

CONCLUSION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9781501735073

1501735071

9781501735080

150173508X

OCLC:

1057240894