Foreword: Elias Khoury
Introduction: The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Syntax of History,
Memory, and Political Thought, by Bashir Bashir and Amos
Goldberg
Part 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, by Mark
Levene
2. Muslims (Shoah, Nakba), by Gil Anidjar
3. Benjamin, the Holocaust, and the Question of Palestine, by Amnon
Raz-Krakotzkin
4. When Yaffa Met (J)Yaffa: Intersections Between the Holocaust and
the Nakba in the Shadow of Zionism, by Honaida Ghanim
5. Holocaust/Nakba and the Counterpublic of Memory, by Nadim
Khoury
Part 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, by 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, by Mustafa Kabha
8. What Does Exile Look Like? Transformations in the Linkage
Between the Shoah and the Nakba, by Yochi Fischer
9. National Narratives of Suffering and Victimhood: Methods and
Ethics of Telling the Past as Personal Political History, by Omer
Bartov
Part 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, by Tal Ben-Zvi
11. Ma'abara: Mizrahim Between Shoah and Nakba, by Omri
Ben-Yehuda
12. From Revenge to Empathy: Abba Kovner from Jewish Destruction to
Palestinian Destruction, by Hannan Hever
Part 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, by Refqa Abu-Remaileh
14. Writing Silence: Reading Khoury's Novel Children of the
Ghetto: My Name is Adam, by Raef Zreik
15. Silence on a Sizzling Tin Roof: A Translator's Point of View on
Children of the Ghetto, by Yehouda Shenhav
Afterword: The Holocaust and the Nakba, by Jacqueline Rose
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Bashir Bashir is Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at the Open
University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer
Jerusalem Institute. He is coeditor of The Politics of
Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (2008).
Amos Goldberg is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of
Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. His books include Trauma in First Person: Diary
Writing During the Holocaust (2017).
Elias Khoury is a literary critic and novelist whose books include
Gate of the Sun.
Jacqueline Rose is a professor of humanities at the Birkbeck
Institute for the Humanities.
Bashir Bashir, Amos Goldberg, and seventeen contributors have
produced a powerful and incisive book that deserves the attention
of everyone interested in central European history. -- Doris L.
Bergen * Central European History *
In their edited collection of essays, Bashir Bashir and Amos
Goldberg (with a forward by Elias Khoury and an afterword by
Jacqueline Rose) have created a much needed intellectual space for
a topic that has become increasingly politically taboo and thereby
subject to multiple modes of censorship (academic and beyond). --
Anya Topolski * Patterns of Prejudice *
[A] pathbreaking book. -- Alon Confino * The New Fascism Syllabus
*
The Holocaust and the Nakba is an original and timely volume
that sheds new light into our understanding of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By putting these two traumas
together, it challenges what many would consider a blasphemous
comparison and refutes any binary approaches to explaining one of
the most intractable conflicts of the twentieth century. It
provides us with new modes of thinking needed for transcending the
ongoing political impasse and building a true historical
reconciliation in Israel/Palestine. -- Leila Farsakh, author of
Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and
Occupation
The key to unlock the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hiding in the
field of psycho-politics. This book offers the readers a new
courageous reading for the painful traumatic rivalry that continues
to mold the two national communities-the Holocaust and the Nakba.
The remarkably insightful, yet challenging, arguments pursued by
leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals and scholars in this volume
bring a ray of hope during these gloomy times. -- Avraham Burg,
former speaker of the Knesset, author of The Holocaust Is Over;
We Must Rise From its Ashes
Bringing together the Holocaust and the Nakba in a joint meditation
is a taboo that this salutary book boldly breaks. In discussing the
many ways in which the Palestinian Nakba and its Arab
representation are intertwined with the Jewish Holocaust and its
Israeli representation, it provides the reader with much to mull
over at this climactic juncture in the relation between Israel and
its Palestinian 'other.' -- Gilbert Achcar, author of The Arabs
and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
Of the many points of conflict in Israel-Palestine, none is as
confounding as the intersecting claims of collective suffering. At
once historical and normative, this landmark volume is the first to
reprise the many ways in which the relationship between the
Holocaust and Nakba have been imagined since the 1940s. The editors
propose a bold, even revolutionary framework for relating these
traumas that is a necessary provocation to entrenched patterns of
memory. -- A. Dirk Moses, author of German Intellectuals and the
Nazi Past
Rarely do scholarly works attain the moral and political
significance of The Holocaust and the Nakba. Bashir and
Goldberg's essential volume brings together an international and
interdisciplinary group of prominent thinkers to address one of the
world's thorniest problems: how to think through the conflicting
narratives of Israelis and Palestinians about their respective
traumatic experiences. Without flinching but with considerable
nuance, the book offers a crucial ethical and political vision of
binational coexistence premised on decolonization and mutual
recognition. -- Michael Rothberg, author of The Implicated
Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators
A ground-breaking book....a remarkably curated collection of
interventions that together constitute a new theoretical approach,
methodology, and "grammar" to put into dialogue the Holocaust and
the Nakba...This book is welcome, long overdue, and will quickly
become a canonical text in Middle East Studies. * Arab Studies
Quarterly *
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