The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History

551 Pages·2018·6.96 MB·English

by  Bashir Bashir

The Holocaust and the Nakba
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The Holocaust and the Nakba
A New Grammar of Trauma and History
EDITED BY
BASHIR BASHIR
AND AMOS GOLDBERG
Columbia University Press
New York
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Art by Lea Grundig © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bashir, Bashir, editor. | Goldberg, Amos,
editor.
Title: The Holocaust and the Nakba : a new grammar of trauma and history / edited by Bashir Bashir and
Amos Goldberg.
Other titles: Shoah veha-nakbah. English Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018018867 (print) | LCCN 2018020550 (e-book) | ISBN 9780231544481 | ISBN
9780231182966 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231182973 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Arab-Israeli
conflict—1948-1967. | Collective memory—Israel. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Historiography. |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Influence. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Public opinion. | Public
opinion—Israel. | Population transfers—Palestinian Arabs. | Palestinian Arabs—Israel—Ethnic identity. |
Refugees, Palestinian Arab. | Israel—Ethnic relations.
Classification: LCC DS119.7 (e-book) | LCC DS119.7 .S3819413 2018 (print) | DDC 940.53/18—dc23
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Contents
Foreword: Elias Khoury
Introduction: The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Syntax of
History, Memory, and Political Thought
BASHIR BASHIR AND AMOS GOLDBERG
PART I
The Holocaust and the Nakba: Enabling Conditions to a New
Historical and Political Syntax
1. Harbingers of Jewish and Palestinian Disasters: European
Nation-State Building and Its Toxic Legacies, 1912–1948
MARK LEVENE
2. Muslims (Shoah, Nakba)
GIL ANIDJAR
3. Benjamin, the Holocaust, and the Question of Palestine
AMNON RAZ-KRAKOTZKIN
AMNON RAZ-KRAKOTZKIN
4. When Yaffa Met (J)Yaffa: Intersections Between the Holocaust
and the Nakba in the Shadow of Zionism
HONAIDA GHANIM
5. Holocaust/Nakba and the Counterpublic of Memory
NADIM KHOURY
PART II
The Holocaust and the Nakba: History and Counterhistory
6. When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History–Jaffa,
1949: Between the Holocaust and the Nakba
ALON CONFINO
7. A Bold Voice Raised Above the Raging Waves: Palestinian
Intellectual Najati Sidqi and His Battle with Nazi Doctrine at the
Time of World War II
MUSTAFA KABHA
8. What Does Exile Look Like? Transformations in the Linkage
Between the Shoah and the Nakba
YOCHI FISCHER
YOCHI FISCHER
9. National Narratives of Suffering and Victimhood: Methods
and Ethics of Telling the Past as Personal Political History
OMER BARTOV
PART III
The Holocaust and the Nakba: The Deployment of Traumatic
Signifiers
10. Culture of Memory: The Holocaust and the Nakba Images in
the Works of Lea Grundig and Abed Abdi
TAL BEN-ZVI
11. Ma’abara: Mizraḥim Between Shoah and Nakba
OMRI BEN-YEHUDA
12. From Revenge to Empathy: Abba Kovner from Jewish
Destruction to Palestinian Destruction
HANNAN HEVER
PART IV
On Elias Khoury’s Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam:
Narrating the Nakba with the Holocaust
13. Novel as Contrapuntal Reading: Elias Khoury’s Children of the
Ghetto: My Name is Adam
REFQA ABU-REMAILEH
14. Writing Silence: Reading Khoury’s Novel Children of the Ghetto:
My Name is Adam
RAEF ZREIK
15. Silence on a Sizzling Tin Roof: A Translator’s Point of View
on Children of the Ghetto
YEHOUDA SHENHAV
Afterword: The Holocaust and the Nakba
JACQUELINE ROSE
Bibliography
Contributors
Index