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1. Historical Truth, Estrangement, and Disbelief
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction: The Field of Holocaust Studies and the Emergence of Global Holocaust Culture 1
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Part I. The Stakes of Narrative
- 1. Historical Truth, Estrangement, and Disbelief 43
- 2. On “Historical Modernism”: A Response to Hayden White 72
- 3. Sense and Sensibility: The Complicated Holocaust Realism of Christopher Browning 79
- 4. A Reply to Wulf Kansteiner 104
- 5. Scales of Postmemory: Six of Six Million 113
- 6. Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn, Author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million 129
- 7. The Death of the Witness; or, The Persistence of the Differend 141
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Part II. Remediations of The Archive
- 8. The Ethics of the Algorithm: Close and Distant Listening to the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive 167
- 9. On the Ethics of Technology and Testimony 203
- 10. A “Spatial Turn” in Holocaust Studies? 218
- 11. Interview with Anne Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, and Paul B. Jaskot, Contributing 240
- 12. Freeze- Framing: Temporality and the Archive in Forgács, Hersonski, and Friedländer 257
- 13. Witnessing the Archive 277
- 14. Deconstructivism and the Holocaust: Peter Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Eu rope 283
- 15. Berlin Memorial Redux 304
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Part III. The Politics of Exceptionality
- 16. The Holocaust as Genocide: Experiential Uniqueness and Integrated History 309
- 17. Anxieties in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 332
- 18. The Witness as “World” Traveler: Multidirectional Memory and Holocaust Internationalism before Human Rights 355
- 19. Fiction and Solicitude: Ethics and the Conditions for Survival 373
- 20. Catastrophes: Afterlives of the Exceptionality Paradigm in Holocaust Studies 389
- Epilogue: Interview with Saul Friedländer 411
- Notes 427
- Acknowledgments 496
- Illustration Credits 497
- Contributors 499
- Index 504
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction: The Field of Holocaust Studies and the Emergence of Global Holocaust Culture 1
-
Part I. The Stakes of Narrative
- 1. Historical Truth, Estrangement, and Disbelief 43
- 2. On “Historical Modernism”: A Response to Hayden White 72
- 3. Sense and Sensibility: The Complicated Holocaust Realism of Christopher Browning 79
- 4. A Reply to Wulf Kansteiner 104
- 5. Scales of Postmemory: Six of Six Million 113
- 6. Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn, Author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million 129
- 7. The Death of the Witness; or, The Persistence of the Differend 141
-
Part II. Remediations of The Archive
- 8. The Ethics of the Algorithm: Close and Distant Listening to the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive 167
- 9. On the Ethics of Technology and Testimony 203
- 10. A “Spatial Turn” in Holocaust Studies? 218
- 11. Interview with Anne Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, and Paul B. Jaskot, Contributing 240
- 12. Freeze- Framing: Temporality and the Archive in Forgács, Hersonski, and Friedländer 257
- 13. Witnessing the Archive 277
- 14. Deconstructivism and the Holocaust: Peter Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Eu rope 283
- 15. Berlin Memorial Redux 304
-
Part III. The Politics of Exceptionality
- 16. The Holocaust as Genocide: Experiential Uniqueness and Integrated History 309
- 17. Anxieties in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 332
- 18. The Witness as “World” Traveler: Multidirectional Memory and Holocaust Internationalism before Human Rights 355
- 19. Fiction and Solicitude: Ethics and the Conditions for Survival 373
- 20. Catastrophes: Afterlives of the Exceptionality Paradigm in Holocaust Studies 389
- Epilogue: Interview with Saul Friedländer 411
- Notes 427
- Acknowledgments 496
- Illustration Credits 497
- Contributors 499
- Index 504