Holocaust And Memory In The Global Age (Politics History & Social Chan) - Softcover

Daniel Levy; Natan Sznaider

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592132766 ISBN 13: 9781592132768

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2005

Synopsis

In The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age, Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider examine the distinctive forms that collective memory take in the age of globalisation. Levy and Sznaider examine the way the Holocaust has been remembered in Germany, Israel, and the US during the last fifty years, and show how this singular event has been detached from its precise context and instead used as a way of focusing abstract questions of good and evil, and how this use has given the Holocaust a resonance across the global stage, as responses to other injustices like ethnic cleansing in Bosnia have depended on a collective understanding of the Holocaust to justify such actions.

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From the Publisher:

How collective memory of the Holocaust advances human rights in the Global Age

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"Levy and Sznaider successfully demonstrate why 'holocaust'is no longer an exclusively Jewish or German concern. Their treatment of how the Holocaust is remembered, taught, memorialized, studied, and incorporated into law and policy in each of the three countries [Israel, Germany, and the US] as well as internationally is empirically rich and informative. Their larger argument about the decoupling of collective memory from national boundaries and the emergence of cosmopolitan meanings and concern is ingenious." —David Abraham, University of Miami School of Law

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1592132766
• ISBN 13: 9781592132768
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240