1. Harbingers of Jewish and Palestinian Disasters: European Nation-State Building and Its Toxic Legacies, 1912-1948

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction. The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Syntax of History, Memory, and Political Thought 1
5. PART I. The Holocaust and the Nakba: Enabling Conditions to a New Historical and Political Syntax
6. 1. Harbingers of Jewish and Palestinian Disasters: European Nation-State Building and Its Toxic Legacies, 1912-1948 45
7. 2. Muslims (Shoah, Nakba) 66
8. 3. Benjamin, the Holocaust, and the Question of Palestine 79
9. 4. When Yaffa Met (J)Yaffa: Intersections Between the Holocaust and the Nakba in the Shadow of Zionism 92
10. 5. Holocaust/Nakba and the Counterpublic of Memory 114
11. PART II. The Holocaust and the Nakba: History and Counterhistory
12. 6. When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History–Jaffa, 1949: Between the Holocaust and the Nakba 135
13. 7. A Bold Voice Raised Above the Raging Waves: Palestinian Intellectual Najati Sidqi and His Battle with Nazi Doctrine at the Time of World War II 154
14. 8. What Does Exile Look Like? Transformations in the Linkage Between the Shoah and the Nakba 173
15. 9. National Narratives of Suffering and Victimhood: Methods and Ethics of Telling the Past as Personal Political History 187
16. PART III. The Holocaust and the Nakba: The Deployment of Traumatic Signifiers
17. 10. Culture of Memory: Holocaust and Nakba Images in the Works of Lea Grundig and Abed Abdi 209
18. 11. Ma’abara: Mizrahim Between Shoah and Nakba 249
19. 12. From Revenge to Empathy: Abba Kovner from Jewish Destruction to Palestinian Destruction 275
20. PART IV. On Elias Khoury’s Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam: Narrating the Nakba with the Holocaust
21. 13. Novel as Contrapuntal Reading Elias Khoury’s Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam 295
22. 14. Writing Silence: Reading Khoury’s Novel Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam 307
23. 15. Silence on a Sizzling Tin Roof: A Translator’s Point of View on Children of the Ghetto 329
24. Afterword: The Holocaust and the Nakba 353
25. Bibliography 363
26. Contributors 385
27. Index 389