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Sznaider stellt in diesem Buch den Widerspruch zwischen dem theoretischen Anspruch auf eine »normale« Gesellschaft und der israelischen Realität in den Fokus. Durch ikonische Ereignisse und Bilder zeigt er, wie die Gesellschaften in Israel sich ständig gegenseitig herausfordern und um eine Definition israelischer Identität ringen. Angesichts der Krise, die das Land derzeit durchlebt, stellt sich der Soziologe Natan Sznaider die Frage, ob man die israelische Gesellschaft überhaupt mit den klassischen Methoden bewerten kann. Der Zionismus sollte die Juden aus ihrer Weltlosigkeit...

To forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with other narratives of victimization that demand equal treatment. Are there crimes that must be forgotten and others that should be remembered?

In this book the authors examine the effects of a globalized Holocaust culture on the ways in which individuals and groups understand the moral and political significance of...

Memories of historical events like the Holocaust have played a key role in the internationalization of human rights. Their importance lies in their ability to bridge the universal and the particular--the universality of human values and the particularity of memories rooted in local human experiences. In Human Rights and Memory, Levy and Sznaider trace the growth of human rights discourse since World War II and interpret its deployment of memories as a new form of cosmopolitanism, exemplifying a dynamic through which global concerns become part of local experiences, and vice...