Marking Evil
Subtitle: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age
By: edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan
Series: Making sense of history -- volume 21
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781782386193; 9781782386209
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Congresses; Historiography; Collective memory
Description: "Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization. This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the ways in which Holocaust-related matters still instigate public debate and academic deliberation. It contends that the contradiction between the totalizing logic of globalization and the assumed uniqueness of the Holocaust generates continued intellectual and practical discontent."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.