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The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s—covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder.
By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture.
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Index
Note: Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.
abolitionists, 1, 4, 8n18, 15n37, 145n39, 148
Abraham, Nicholas, 116n92
Abramson, Henry, 50n56
Adenauer, Konrad, 93n8
Afghanistan, 145, 155, 156
Alexander, Edward, 38–39
Algeria, 6n11, 73, 83n68, 89–90, 94
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 73–74
Amicale d’Auschwitz (organization), 85n77
Amnesty International, 135n8
Anbert, Camille, 67
Annan, Kofi, 140
Antelme, Robert, 73
antisemitism, 5, 17, 97; Braudel on, 91; Catholic response to, 85n75; North American Jews and, 19–20; Rousset on, 83–84; Ukrainian, 52–55
apartheid, 142
Apel, Dora, 156
Arendt, Hannah, 4, 96, 101n45; Bettelheim and, 120; Eichmann in Jerusalem by, 33, 99, 118n106, 120; on Hausner, 97n24, 112n84; on Jewish complicity, 118, 120, 122; on Kovner, 103; Origins of Totalitarianism by, 118n106, 171; Rousset and, 21, 84n73, 88–89; on Schwarzbard trial, 33n13
Armenian genocide (1915), 2n2, 30–48, 145n39; architect of, 3, 26; Lepsius on, 31; Toynbee on, 26, 31
Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), 26, 34, 40, 48n51
Armenian statehood, 30
atrocity photographs, 24, 136, 152–68, 156, 165
Aubert, Théodore, 63n8
Auschwitz concentration camp, 163; photographs of, 153–54; resistance at, 102–3; Salonika Jews at, 111–12; Vaillant-Couturier at, 79
Auschwitz trials (1963–65), 10, 93n8
autism, 118n107
Azoulay, Ariella, 158
Azouvi, François, 92n5
Baer, Ulrich, 164–68
...Table of contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- ONE The Righteous Avengers / The Tehlirian and Schwarzbard Trials, 1921 and 1927
- TWO The Camp Survivor / The Libel Cases of Victor Kravchenko and David Rousset, 1949 and 1950–51
- THREE The Holocaust Witness / The Eichmann Trial and Its Aftermath
- FOUR The Global Victim and the Counterwitness
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Index