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6. The Singular Jew

Representing national socialism’s Jewish Victims in Recent historical cinema
  • Jennifer M. Kapczynski
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Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century
This chapter is in the book Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century
© 2016 Columbia University Press

© 2016 Columbia University Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Notes on Contributors vii
  4. Introduction. The Next Chapter in the History of Holocaust Cinema 1
  5. Part One. The past and its presence
  6. 1. Transformations of Holocaust Memory 23
  7. 2. Supplementing Shoah 41
  8. 3. The Act of Digging 59
  9. 4. The Willing Amnesia 76
  10. 5. Wilhelm Brasse’s Photographs from Auschwitz 95
  11. Part two. The ethics of memory
  12. 6. The Singular Jew 117
  13. 7. Locked doors and Hidden Graves 141
  14. 8. The Ethics of Perspective and the Holocaust Archive 161
  15. Part three. The legacy of evil
  16. 9. ‘The doctor is different’ 183
  17. 10. On the Cinematic Nazi 203
  18. 11. The Holocaust as Case Study 221
  19. 12. TV as a Historical Archive? 242
  20. Index 260
https://doi.org/10.7312/baye17422-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Notes on Contributors vii
  4. Introduction. The Next Chapter in the History of Holocaust Cinema 1
  5. Part One. The past and its presence
  6. 1. Transformations of Holocaust Memory 23
  7. 2. Supplementing Shoah 41
  8. 3. The Act of Digging 59
  9. 4. The Willing Amnesia 76
  10. 5. Wilhelm Brasse’s Photographs from Auschwitz 95
  11. Part two. The ethics of memory
  12. 6. The Singular Jew 117
  13. 7. Locked doors and Hidden Graves 141
  14. 8. The Ethics of Perspective and the Holocaust Archive 161
  15. Part three. The legacy of evil
  16. 9. ‘The doctor is different’ 183
  17. 10. On the Cinematic Nazi 203
  18. 11. The Holocaust as Case Study 221
  19. 12. TV as a Historical Archive? 242
  20. Index 260
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