Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-11110-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 769 g

This book contains three independent essays, available in English for the first time, as well as a post-scriptum written for the English edition. The common theme of the three essays is the uses and abuses of the Holocaust as an ideological arm in the anti-Zionist campaigns. The first essay examines the French group of left-wing Holocaust deniers. The second essay deals with a number of Israeli academics and intellectuals, the so-called post-Zionists, and tries to follow their use of the Holocaust in their different attempts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. The third deals with Hannah Arendt and her relations with Zionism and the State of Israel as reflected in her general work and in Eichmann in Jerusalem; the views that she formulates are used systematically and extensively by anti- and post-Zionists. Yakira argues that each of these is a particular expression of an outrage: anti-Zionism and a wholesale delegitimation of Israel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yakira, Elhanan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Swirsky, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Holocaust denial and the left; 2. The Holocaust and the good Israelis; 3. On the political and the anti-political: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann, and Israel; 4. Post-script: 1967 or 1948?; Appendix. Biographical notes; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Yakira, Elhanan
Elhanan Yakira is currently Schulman Professor of Philosophy at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and holds his doctorate from the Sorbonne in France. His publications include Nécessité, Contrainte et Choix - la métaphysique de la liberté chez Spinoza et Leibniz (1989), La causalité de Galilée à Kant (1994), Shlomo Ben Ami: Quel avenir pour Israël? (with Jeffrey Barash and Yves-Charles Zarka, 2001) and Leibniz's Theory of the Rational (with E. Grosholz, 1998). He also translated Liebnitz's Discours de métaphysique et la correspondence avec Arnauld into Hebrew and edited Descartes' Meditations and other philosophical classics.