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From: Adam Brown <[email protected]>

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JUDGING "PRIVILEGED" JEWS: HOLOCAUST ETHICS, REPRESENTATION, AND THE "GREY
ZONE"
Volume 18 of the War and Genocide Series by Berghahn Books
by Adam Brown

50% discount individual order form (expires 13 October):
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“Brown’s work breaks new ground by providing a sustained and detailed
analysis of those Holocaust victims who can be called ‘privileged’ Jews…
These men and women… have been ‘present’ in many accounts of the Holocaust,
but Brown brings that presence to center stage and sheds important light
upon it.” - John K. Roth, Claremont McKenna College

“This book makes an important contribution to Holocaust studies,
particularly to the study of Holocaust memorial culture, to the study of
Holocaust film, to what might be called Holocaust ethics, and, to a certain
degree, the analysis of Holocaust testimonies. It is readable and largely
jargon-free, thoroughly researched and documented… an excellent piece of
scholarship: rewarding and instructive at many turns.” - Oren Stier,
Florida International University

“This is an uncommonly well and clearly written book that commands and
draws thoughtfully upon a large body of relevant literature… I found it
consistently fascinating, even in the few passages where I was not
thoroughly convinced.” - Peter Hayes, Northwestern University

The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the
creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with
their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called
“privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as
self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures
constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often
taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi’s concept of the “grey
zone,” this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on “privileged”
Jews as represented by writers, such as Raul Hilberg, and in films,
including Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List.
Negotiating the problems and potentialities of “representing the
unrepresentable,” this book engages with issues that are fundamental to
present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to
reflections on human nature.


Dr Adam Brown
Deakin University
Email: [email protected]
Academia: http://deakin.academia.edu/AdamBrown

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