Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

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