The Holocaust and the Nakba : a new grammar of trauma and history / edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg

Uniform Title: Shoʼah ṿeha-nakbah. English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date: ©2019
Physical Description: xvi, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Bashir, Bashir, 1976- and Goldberg, Amos

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Religion, culture, and public life

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Holocaust and the Nakba: Enabling Conditions to a New Historical and Political Syntax -- 1.Harbingers of Jewish and Palestinian Disasters: European Nation-State Building and Its Toxic Legacies, 1912-1948 / Mark Levene -- 2.Muslims (Shoah, Nakba) / Gil Anidjar -- 3.Benjamin, the Holocaust, and the Question of Palestine / Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin -- 4.When Yaffa Met (j)Yaffa: Intersections Between the Holocaust and the Nakba in the Shadow of Zionism / Honaida Ghanim -- 5.Holocaust/Nakba and the Counterpublic of Memory / Nadim Khoury -- pt. II The Holocaust and the Nakba: History and Counterhistory -- 6.When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History-Jaffa, 1949: Between the Holocaust and the Nakba / Alon Confino -- 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 / Mustafa Kabha -- 8.What Does Exile Look Like? Transformations in the Linkage Between the Shoah and the Nakba / Yochi Fischer -- 9.National Narratives of Suffering and Victimhood: Methods and Ethics of Telling the Past as Personal Political History / Omer Bartov -- pt. III The Holocaust and the Nakba: The Deployment of Traumatic Signifiers -- 10.Culture of Memory: The Holocaust and the Nakba Images in the Works of Lea Grundig and Abed Abdi / Tal Ben-Zvi -- 11.Ma'abara: Mizrahim Between Shoah and Nakba / Omri Ben-Yehuda -- 12.From Revenge to Empathy: Abba Kovner from Jewish Destruction to Palestinian Destruction / Hannan Hever -- pt. IV On Elias Khoury's Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam: Narrating the Nakba with the Holocaust -- 13.Novel as Contrapuntal Reading: Elias Khoury's Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam / Refqa Abu-Remaileh -- 14.Writing Silence: Reading Khoury's Novel Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam / Raef Zreik -- 15.Silence on a Sizzling Tin Roof: A Translator's Point of View on Children of the Ghetto / Yehouda Shenhav.

Summary

"This book deals with two very painful and traumatic events in Jewish and Palestinian history--the Holocaust and the Nakba. Both events, which differ in nature and in degree, have had a decisive impact on the subsequent history, consciousness and identities of the two peoples. The Holocaust has become a central component of Jewish identity, particularly since the late 1970s and the 1980s, in Israel and around the world. The Nakba and its persisting consequences have become a crucial part of Palestinian and Arab identities since 1948. For the Palestinians, the Nakba is not merely about their defeat, their ethnic cleansing from Palestine and the loss of their homeland, nor even about having become a people most of whom live as refugees outside their land, and a minority living under occupation in their own land. The Nakba also represents the destruction of hundreds of villages and urban neighborhoods, along with the cultural, economic, political and social fabric of the Palestinian people. It is the violent and irreparable disruption of the modern development of Palestinian culture, society, and national consciousness. It is the ongoing colonization of Palestine that continues to the present through colonial practices and polices like Jewish settlements, illegal land acquisition, and the emptying of villages"--

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ISBN

9780231182966 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231182961
9780231182973
023118297X

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-384) and index.

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