Rethinking Holocaust Justice

Essays across Disciplines

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2019
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-514-5 (ISBN)

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In the past two decades, the subject of post-Holocaust justice has experienced a surge of interest among historians and legal scholars. Rethinking Holocaust Justice offers a multifaceted approach to post-Holocaust justice, bringing together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the complexity of these issues.

Since the end of World War II, the ongoing efforts aimed at criminal prosecution, restitution, and other forms of justice in the wake of the Holocaust have constituted one of the most significant episodes in the history of human rights and international law. As such, they have attracted sustained attention from historians and legal scholars. This edited collection substantially enlarges the topical and disciplinary scope of this burgeoning field, exploring such varied subjects as literary analysis of Hannah Arendt’s work, the restitution case for Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze, and the ritualistic aspects of criminal trials.

Norman J. W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida. His books include The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews 1918-1945 (2013), Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War (2007), and the edited volume Jewish Histories of the Holocaust: New Transnational Approaches (2014).

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Introduction

Norman J.W. Goda

PART I: LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS APPROACHES TO HOLOCAUST JUSTICE

Chapter 1. Before the Law: The Poetics of Justice in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eric Kligerman

Chapter 2. Criminal Trials as Rituals of Purification

Katharina von Kellenbach

PART II: TESTIMONY AND NARRATIVE

Chapter 3. What Kind of Narrative is Legal Testimony? Terezín Witnesses Before of Czechoslovak, Austrian, and German Courts

Anna Hájková

Chapter 4.  A Morality of Evil: Nazi Ethics and the Defense Strategies of German Perpetrators

Kerstin von Lingen

PART III: APPROACHES TO JUSTICE IN THE KILLING FIELDS

Chapter 5. The “Second Wave” of Soviet Justice: The 1960s War Crimes Trials

Alexander V. Prusin

Chapter 6. “Not quite Klaus Barbie, but in that Category” Mykola Lebed, the CIA, and the Airbrushing of the Past

Per Anders Rudling

Chapter 7. Convicting the Cog: The Munich Trial of John Demjanjuk

Lawrence Douglas

PART IV: RETHINKING APPROACHES TO HOLOCAUST RESTITUTION

Chapter 8. Reparations, Victims, and Trauma in the Wake of the Holocaust

Regula Ludi

Chapter 9. Achieving a Measure of Justice and Writing Holocaust History through US Restitution Litigation

Michael J. Bazyler

Chapter 10. The Fortunate Possessor: The Case of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze

Sophie Lillie

PART V: RETURNING TO NUREMBERG

Chapter 11. Judging from Without: German Clergy, Public Pressure, and Postwar Justice

JonDavid K. Wyneken

Chapter 12. Rough Justice and the US Approach to War Crimes Prosecution: Dachau, Guantanamo Bay, and the Nuremberg Exception

Tomaz Jardim

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Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2019
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-10	1-78920-514-X / 178920514X
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-514-5 / 9781789205145
Zustand	Neuware