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Author_Joan B. Wolf
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Product details
- ISBN 9780804748896
- Weight: 513g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Harnessing the Holocaust presents the compelling story of how the Nazi genocide of the Jews became an almost daily source of controversy in French politics. Joan Wolf argues that from the Six-Day War through the trial of Maurice Papon in 1997-98, the Holocaust developed from a Jewish trauma into a metaphor for oppression and a symbol of victimization on a wide scale.
Using scholarship from a range of disciplines, Harnessing the Holocaust argues that the roots of Holocaust politics reside in the unresolved dilemmas of Jewish emancipation and the tensions inherent in the revolutionary notion of universalism. Ultimately, the book suggests, the Holocaust became a screen for debates about what it means to be French.
Joan B. Wolf is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University.
