Judging “Privileged” Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the “Grey Zone,”
In a 1960 letter to the translator of the German edition of Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi writes that thanks to him, he “can speak to the German people, remind them of what they have done, and say to them” that he wishes “to understand [them] in order to judge” them. Notwithstanding its brevity,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 489-492 |
| Review of: | Judging "privileged" Jews (New York, NY [u.a.] : Berghahn Books, 2015) (Böhm, Peter)
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| Summary: | In a 1960 letter to the translator of the German edition of Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi writes that thanks to him, he “can speak to the German people, remind them of what they have done, and say to them” that he wishes “to understand [them] in order to judge” them. Notwithstanding its brevity, Levi's statement embraces the dilemma Holocaust studies has faced from the start: although the facts of the Holocaust (the what) and their interrelatedness (the how) can be known, even an incomplete understanding of its reasons (the why) eludes us. Levi's letter is reprinted in The Drowned and the Saved, where he develops his concept of the “Grey Zone. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv052 |