Judging ""Priviliged"" Jews : Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the ""Grey Zone""

The Nazis' persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called "privileged" positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-...

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Main Author: Brown, Adam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Series:War and genocide.
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Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction
  • Privileged Jews, Holocaust Representation, and the Limit of Judgment; Chapter 1
  • La Zona Grigia: The Paradox of Judgment in Primo Levi's Gey Zone
  • Chapter 2
  • The Judgment of Privileged Jews in the Work of Raul Hilberg; Chapter 3
  • Bridging History and Cinema: Privileged Jews in Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Other Holocaust Documentaries; Chapter 4
  • Portraying Privileged Jews in Fiction Films: The Potential to Suspend Judgment?; Conclusion
  • And What Would You Have Done? Negotiating the Paradoxical Bind.