The Holocaust and the Nakba

Bashir Bashir is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is coeditor of The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (2008).Amos Goldberg is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His books include Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing During the Holocaust (2017).Elias Khoury is a literary critic and novelist whose books include Gate of the Sun.Jacqueline Rose is a professor of humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.

In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. It searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections.

Foreword: Elias KhouryIntroduction: The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Syntax of History, Memory, and Political Thought, by Bashir Bashir and Amos GoldbergPart I. The Holocaust and the Nakba: Enabling Conditions to a New Historical and Political Syntax1. Harbingers of Jewish and Palestinian Disasters: European Nation-State Building and Its Toxic Legacies, 1912-1948, by Mark Levene2. Muslims (Shoah, Nakba), by Gil Anidjar3. Benjamin, the Holocaust, and the Question of Palestine, by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin4. When Yaffa Met (J)Yaffa: Intersections Between the Holocaust and the Nakba in the Shadow of Zionism, by Honaida Ghanim5. Holocaust/Nakba and the Counterpublic of Memory, by Nadim KhouryPart II. The Holocaust and the Nakba: History and Counterhistory6. When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History-Jaffa, 1949: Between the Holocaust and the Nakba, by Alon Confino7. 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, by Mustafa Kabha8. What Does Exile Look Like? Transformations in the Linkage Between the Shoah and the Nakba, by Yochi Fischer9. National Narratives of Suffering and Victimhood: Methods and Ethics of Telling the Past as Personal Political History, by Omer BartovPart III. The Holocaust and the Nakba: The Deployment of Traumatic Signifiers10. Culture of Memory: The Holocaust and the Nakba Images in the Works of Lea Grundig and Abed Abdi, by Tal Ben-Zvi11. Ma'abara: Mizräim Between Shoah and Nakba, by Omri Ben-Yehuda12. From Revenge to Empathy: Abba Kovner from Jewish Destruction to Palestinian Destruction, by Hannan HeverPart IV. On Elias Khoury's Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam: Narrating the Nakba with the Holocaust13. Novel as Contrapuntal Reading: Elias Khoury's Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam, by Refqa Abu-Remaileh14. Writing Silence: Reading Khoury's Novel Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam, by Raef Zreik15. Silence on a Sizzling Tin Roof: A Translator's Point of View on Children of the Ghetto, by Yehouda ShenhavAfterword: The Holocaust and the Nakba, by Jacqueline RoseBibliographyContributorsIndex