The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian GenocideTransaction Publishers - 405 páginas The genocide of Armenians by Turks during the First World War was one of the most horrendous deeds of modern times and a precursor of the genocidal acts that have marked the rest of the twentieth century. Despite the worldwide attention the atrocities received at the time, the massacre has not remained a part of the world's historical consciousness. The parallels between the Jewish and Armenian situations and the reactions of the Jewish community in Palestine (the Yishuv) to the Armenian genocide, which was muted and largely self-interested, are explored by Yair Auron. In attempting to assess and interpret these disparate reactions, Auron maintains a fairminded balance in assessing claims of altruism and self-interest, expressed in universal, not merely Jewish, terms. While not denying the uniqueness of the Holocaust, Auron carefully distinguishes it from the Armenian genocide reviewing existing theories and relating Armenian and Jewish experience to ongoing issues of politics and identity. As a groundbreaking work of comparative history, this volume will be read by Armenian area specialists, historians of Zionism and Israel, and students of genocide. Yair Auron is senior lecturer at The Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education. He is the author, in Hebrew, of Jewish-Israeli Identity, Sensitivity to World Suffering: Genocide in the Twentieth Century, We Are All German Jews, and Jewish Radicals in France during the Sixties and Seventies (published in French as well) |
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... Palestine - History . 4. Zionism - Palestine- History 5. Palestine - History - 1917-1948 . 6. Hebrew literature , Mod- ern - History and criticism . 7. Genocide in literature . 8. Armenian massa- cres , 1915-1923 , in literature . I ...
... Palestine ( Eretz Yisrael ) and of the Zionist leader- ship toward the massacres committed by the Turks against the Arme- nians at the turn of the twentieth century . These atrocities began in the last decade of the nineteenth century ...
... Palestine . Moreover , it had a significant impact on the members of the Jewish youth move- ments who established the Underground in the ghettos in Poland in 1942-43.1 Despite the reactions that Werfel's book inspired , the murder of ...
... Palestine , which grew with the waves of Zionist immigration in the decades before the First World War , and the Armenian community within the historic borders of Ar- menia , were subject to the rule of the Ottoman Empire . The Jews ...
... Palestine . It is worth noting that the Jewish population in Palestine feared a " similar fate , " and was stricken with anxiety about potential disaster similar to the Armenian precedent . This book will not deal directly with the ...
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Palestine During the First World War | 59 |
The Reactors | 101 |
The Nili Group and the Armenians | 159 |
A JewishArabArmenian Alliance | 215 |
Silent MusesThe Armenian Massacre as Seen in | 271 |
Symbol and Parable | 293 |
The Indifferent | 313 |
The Attitudes Towards the Armenian Genocide after | 351 |
Conclusion | 369 |
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The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide Yair Auron Vista previa limitada - 2017 |
The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide Yair Auron Vista previa limitada - 2017 |