Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction1. Every Once in a While: Schindler's List and the Shaping of History Barbie Zelizer
2. Spielberg's Oskar: Hollywood Tries Evil Omer Bartov
3. The Cinema Animal Geoffrey Hartman
4. Schindler's List is not Shoah: Second Commandment, Popular Modernism and Public
Memory Miriam Hansen
5. Holocaust Others: Spielberg's Schindler's List versus Lanzmann's Shoah Yosefa
Loshitzky
6. But is it Good for the Jews? Spielberg's Schindler and the Aesthetics of Atrocity Sara R.
Horowitz
7. The Image Lingers: The Feminization of the Jew in Schindler's List Judith E. Doneson
8. Schindler's Discourse: America Discusses the Holocaust and its Mediation, from NBC's
Miniseries to Spielberg's Film Jeffrey A. Shandler
9. The Tale of the Good German: Reflections on the Israeli Reception of Schindler's List
Liliane Weissberg
10. The Great Taboo Broken: Reflections on the Israeli Reception of Schindler's List
Haim Bresheeth
11. Between Obsession and Amnesia: Reflections on the French Reception of Schindler's
List Natasha Lehrer
12. The Uncertain Certainty of Schindler's List Bryan Cheyette

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Debates the representation and popular reception of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.

About the Author

Yosefa Loshitzky, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the author of The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci.