Recently Published Works in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Archiv für Dezember 2016
Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia
Quelle: http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/30/3/543?rss=1
Naming the Criminal: Lithuanian Jews Remember Perpetrators
<span class=“paragraphSection“><div class=“boxTitle“>Abstract</div>Psychoanalyst Dori Laub asserts that for camp inmates the Holocaust extinguished the possibility of “I-thou” interaction. Address and response, the basis of human subjectivity, became impossible for the prisoner to imagine. The author of this article uses victims’ descriptions of perpetrators to investigate this assertion. Do survivors at times conceive of a wartime assailant as “you”—as an addressable human agent? Comparing two clusters of testimony by Lithuanian Jews, the author finds that contemporary language and social context shape the victims’ stance toward Holocaust perpetration—that is, how they weigh human versus structural wrong. She also points out various ethical traps inherent in each of the two methods of remembering wartime aggressors.</span>
Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination
<span class=“paragraphSection“>Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination, IhrigStefan (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014), 311 pp., hardcover $29.95, electronic version available.</span>
The Politics of Remembering: Representation of the Armenian Genocide in Kurdish Novels
<span class=“paragraphSection“><div class=“boxTitle“>Abstract</div>Kurds were among the main perpetrators of violence against Christian minorities in the late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican periods, most notably during the Armenian Genocide. Themselves denied basic national and cultural rights since the foundation of the Republic in 1923, however, many Kurds have come in recent decades to empathize with the Armenian experience and to advocate acknowledging the Genocide. Not only have Kurdish political figures apologized on behalf of perpetrator-ancestors, but dozens of Kurdish novels have represented the experience of the Armenians by privileging “real” historical events and biographies. The incorporation of the Armenian Genocide into Kurdish novels frames social memory and reflects evolving Kurdish politics. To explore this mobilization of “history” and “memory,” this article analyzes five novels in the Kurmanji dialect of Turkish Kurdistan.</span>
Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler
<span class=“paragraphSection“>Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War Against Hitler, RieblingMark (New York: Basic Books, 2015), 375 pp., hardcover $29.99, paperback $17.00, electronic version available.</span>
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The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War
<span class=“paragraphSection“>The Pope’s Dilemma: Pius XII Faces Atrocities and Genocide in the Second World War, KornbergJacques (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), 424 pp., paperback $37.95, electronic version available.</span>
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Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust
<span class=“paragraphSection“>Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust, edited by JockuschLaura and FinderGabriel N. (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press in association with the…