Jews - History, Memory, and the Present

Informationen zum Autor Pierre Vidal-Naquet. With a Foreword by Paul Berman Translated and edited by David Ames Curtis Klappentext Zusammenfassung These essays treat a range of issues from the ancient Jewish revolt against Roman rule and the much-mythologized martyrdom at Masada! the French Revolution! and Marxism's difficulties with "the Jewish question!" to Nazi genocide and the deep problems of representing it. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's NoteForeward by Paul BermanPreface to the English-Language EditionPart One: Origins and History1. Forms of Political Activity in the Jewish World! Principally Around the First Century C.E.2. Flavius Josephus and Masada3. Flavius Josephus and the Prophets4. Apropos of ZakhorPart Two: Emancipation and History5. The Privilege of Liberty6. Dreyfus in the Affair and in History7. Jewish Prism! Marxist PrismPart Three: Destruction! Memory! and the Present8. The Hero! the Historian! and Choice9. The Historian and the Test of Murder10. The Shoah's Challenge to History11. On an Interpretation of the Great Massacre: Arno Mayer and the 'Final Solution'12. And by the Power of a Word...13. A Wonderful School...14. The Harmonics of Szymon Laks15. Presentation of a Document: The Journal of Attorney Lucien Vidal-NaquetPart Four: History! Memory! and the Present16. Reflections at the Margins of a Tragedy17. Return to Israel18. 'Inquiry into a Massacre'! by Amnon Kapeliouk19. The Anti-Peace ColonistsPart Five: Conclusion20. Recollections of a Witness: Protestants and Jews During the Second World War in FranceNotesIndex

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• Authors: Pierre Vidal-Naquet
• Assisted by: David Ames Curtis (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.1998
• EAN: 9780231102094
• ISBN: 978-0-231-10209-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Prespectives: A Serie; European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Prespectives: A Serie
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous