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A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry...
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by Samuel Moyn
Sales Rank: 397590
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Cover Type: Paperback with 248 pages
Published by: Brandeis; I edition August 22, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1584655097
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1584655091
Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 12.8 ounces
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"Arresting scholarship . . . Moyn elucidates with compelling clarity and coherence. Alive to historical ironies and penetratingly written, this small, thoughtful book focusing on one moment in French history illuminates very large themes, representing intellectual history at its very best."--Choice
"In uncovering and analyzing the controversy for contemporary readers, Moyn provides an entry for productive examination of some of the compelling issues still animating Holocaust scholarship, including how best to conceptualize Nazi criminality, the question of Holocaust particularity, the issue of Jewish complicity and resistance, the effect the Holocaust should have on framing Jewish identity, and the uses and abuses of the Holocaust to further other agendas. The book is timely, important and quite suggestive."--Jewish Book World
"Professor Samuel Moyn's book is a brilliant presentation of the intellectual and emotional controversy caused by the publication of Steiner's book."--Bridges
"Moyn's discussion is built on painstaking analysis of primary sources, from private archives to Parisian Yiddish daily newspapers, and manages to be at once exceptionally scrupulous and wonderfully lucid . . . This is a superb book and, as an inspiring model of committed scholarship, at a time when particularism and universalism are again crucial domestic and international political questions, essential reading."--French Studies
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"Did Jews go like lambs to the Nazi slaughter? Not those who revolted in the Treblinka death camp in August 1943. In this absorbing and elegant work Samuel Moyn shows how an incendiary book about Treblinka in 1966 transformed Holocaust awareness." (Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order )
Reader Reviews
Moyn talks about difficult issues of Jewish and non-Jewish identity in France of the 1960s, when Steiner wrote his book on the Treblinka extermination camp. Steiner dramatised a revolt by Jews, and his book was well received. But it also triggered a volatile controversy with some circles in France. To some extent, this involved a difficult question of passivity or non-passivity by Jews in the face of evil. While Steiner's book described Jews who revolted, it begged the question about those who did not. Questions of collaboration arose. This also overlaid the more general issue of collaboration by Jew and non-Jew in Occupied France during the war. Remember too that the controversy was in 1966, when many who were adults in wartime France were still around. For non-Jewish French, collaboration was also a very awkward topic. Contributing and amplifying the controversy around Steiner.
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