Description
Based on years of research conducted mostly in Arabic sources, Meir Litvak and Ester Webman track the evolution of post-World War II perceptions of the Holocaust and their parallel emergence in the wake of the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1948. Following the establishment of the State of Israel,
Arab attitudes toward the Holocaust became entangled with broader anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic sentiments. Litvak and Webman track this discourse through the work of leading intellectuals and turn to representations of the Holocaust in the media and culture of Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and among the
Palestinian people. Their chronological history, which spans sixty years, provides a remarkable perspective on the origins, development, and tenaciousness of anti-Holocaust belief. From Empathy to Denial is the first comprehensive investigation of Holocaust denial in the Arab world, and is based on years of painstaking historical research of mostly Arabic language sources. The authors explore how Holocaust denial emerged after the Second World War, how it paralleled the wider
Arab-Israeli conflict after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and how it subsequently became entangled with broader anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic sentiment. In particular Litvak and Webman look at the role of leading intellectuals, the media and other cultural forms in Egypt, Lebanon,
Jordan and among the Palestinians and how their representation of the Holocaust has evolved in the last sixty years.
Author: Meir Litvak, Esther Webman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/19/2011
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780199326747
ISBN10: 0199326746
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East | General
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- Religion | Islam | History
Arab attitudes toward the Holocaust became entangled with broader anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic sentiments. Litvak and Webman track this discourse through the work of leading intellectuals and turn to representations of the Holocaust in the media and culture of Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and among the
Palestinian people. Their chronological history, which spans sixty years, provides a remarkable perspective on the origins, development, and tenaciousness of anti-Holocaust belief. From Empathy to Denial is the first comprehensive investigation of Holocaust denial in the Arab world, and is based on years of painstaking historical research of mostly Arabic language sources. The authors explore how Holocaust denial emerged after the Second World War, how it paralleled the wider
Arab-Israeli conflict after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and how it subsequently became entangled with broader anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic sentiment. In particular Litvak and Webman look at the role of leading intellectuals, the media and other cultural forms in Egypt, Lebanon,
Jordan and among the Palestinians and how their representation of the Holocaust has evolved in the last sixty years.
Author: Meir Litvak, Esther Webman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/19/2011
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780199326747
ISBN10: 0199326746
BISAC Categories:
- History | Middle East | General
- History | Modern | 20th Century | Holocaust
- Religion | Islam | History
About the Author
Meir Litvak is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University and is the author of Shi'i Scholars in 19th Century Iraq: The Shi'i 'Ulama of Najaf and Karbala.