The Holocaust in Israeli Public Debate in the 1950s, Roni Stauber (Edgware, UK: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007), xiv + 232 pp., cloth 75.00, pbk. 32.95
Among her criticisms of the trial conducted against Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, Hannah Arendt included a scathing critique of Chief Prosecutor Gideon Hausner's insistence on asking each witness why he or she had not resisted. Arendt found the question insensitive, offensive, and immate...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 501-503 |
| Review of: | The Holocaust in Israeli Public Debate in the 1950s (London [u.a.] : Mitchell, 2007) (Bolkosky, Sidney)
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| Summary: | Among her criticisms of the trial conducted against Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, Hannah Arendt included a scathing critique of Chief Prosecutor Gideon Hausner's insistence on asking each witness why he or she had not resisted. Arendt found the question insensitive, offensive, and immaterial to the subject at hand: the actions of the defendant. She neglected to mention that the debate in Israel over Jewish resistance during the Holocaust had begun as early as 1943, in mandatory Palestine. As Roni Stauber points out in The Holocaust in Israeli Public Debate in the 1950s, that debate had enormous significance for the formation of Jewish national identity in Israel, and revolved around the “Jewish response”—the attitudes and actions of Jews in the Diaspora. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp053 |