| Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel Contributor(s): Yakira, Elhanan (Author), Swirsky, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0521111102 ISBN-13: 9780521111102 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $104.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2009 Annotation: This book contains three essays, available in English for the first time, that examine three forms of anti-Zionism and their use of the Holocaust to delegitimize Israel. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Essays - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism - Social Science | Jewish Studies |
| Dewey: 320.540 |
| LCCN: 2009010231 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.40 lbs) 356 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Elhanan Yakira argues that each of these is a particular expression of an outrage: anti-Zionism and a wholesale delegitimation of Israel. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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 Necessite, Contrainte et Choix - la metaphysique de la liberte chez Spinoza et Leibniz (1989), La causalite de Galilee a Kant (1994), Shlomo Ben Ami: Quel avenir pour Israel? (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 metaphysique et la correspondence avec Arnauld into Hebrew and edited Descartes' Meditations and other philosophical classics." |
