Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi CollaboratorsDan Porat
Dan Porat’s analysis of the “Kapo trials” in Israel between 1950 and 1972 is critical for scholars interested in Holocaust justice, Jewish Holocaust testimony, and myths of postwar “silence” concerning the Holocaust. It is only recently that the records of the proceedings have been declassified. No...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 506-508 |
| Review of: | Bitter Reckoning (Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2019) (Goda, Norman J. W.)
Bitter reckoning (Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019) (Goda, Norman J. W.) |
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| Summary: | Dan Porat’s analysis of the “Kapo trials” in Israel between 1950 and 1972 is critical for scholars interested in Holocaust justice, Jewish Holocaust testimony, and myths of postwar “silence” concerning the Holocaust. It is only recently that the records of the proceedings have been declassified. No one remembered the trials triumphantly as they reflected agonizing Israeli debates concerning Jews who served the Nazis in ghettos and camps. As Porat points out, a prosecutor for four of the cases claimed, in a 2013 interview, that she had blotted them from her memory., To Porat, Israel’s roughly thirty trials of very ordinary Jewish functionaries went through distinct phases. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcaa047 |