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The Holocaust and the Nakba RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE Series Editor: Katherine Pratt Ewing The resurgence of religion calls for careful analysis and constructive criticism of new forms of intolerance, as well as new approaches to tolerance, respect, mutual under- standing, and accommodation. In order to promote serious scholarship and informed debate, the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and Columbia University Press are sponsoring a book series devoted to the investigation of the role of religion in society and culture today. This series includes works by scholars in religious studies, political science, history, cultural anthropology, economics, social psychology, and other allied (cid:1006)elds whose work sustains multidisciplinary and comparative as well as transnational analyses of historical and contemporary issues. The series focuses on issues related to questions of di(cid:1016)erence, identity, and practice within local, national, and international contexts. Special attention is paid to the ways in which religious traditions encourage con(cid:1008)ict, violence, and intolerance and also support human rights, ecumenical values, and mutual understanding. By mediating alternative methodologies and di(cid:1016)erent reli- gious, social, and cultural traditions, books published in this series will open channels of communication that facilitate critical analysis. For the complete list of books in this series, see page 405 The Holocaust and the Nakba A New Grammar of Trauma and History (cid:4469)(cid:4449)(cid:4601)(cid:4839)(cid:4469)(cid:4449) (cid:4413)(cid:4922) (cid:4413)(cid:4240)(cid:4824)(cid:4566)(cid:4601)(cid:4808) (cid:4413)(cid:4240)(cid:4824)(cid:4566)(cid:4601)(cid:4808) (cid:4240)(cid:4712)(cid:4449) (cid:4240)(cid:4704)(cid:4738)(cid:4824) (cid:4544)(cid:4738)(cid:4680)(cid:4449)(cid:4413)(cid:4469)(cid:4808)(cid:4544) Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York(cid:3273)Chichester, West Sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2019 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Art by Lea Grundig © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bashir, Bashir, editor. | Goldberg, Amos, editor. Title: The Holocaust and the Nakba : a new grammar of trauma and history / edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg. Other titles: Shoah veha-nakbah. English Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] Identi(cid:1006)ers: LCCN 2018018867 (print) | LCCN 2018020550 (e-book) | ISBN 9780231544481 | ISBN 9780231182966 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231182973 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Arab-Israeli con(cid:1008)ict—1948-1967. | Collective memory—Israel. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Historiography. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)— In(cid:1008)uence. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Public opinion. | Public opinion—Israel. | Population transfers—Palestinian Arabs. | Palestinian Arabs—Israel—Ethnic identity. | Refugees, Palestinian Arab. | Israel—Ethnic relations. Classi(cid:1006)cation: LCC DS119.7 (e-book) | LCC DS119.7 .S3819413 2018 (print) | DDC 940.53/18—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018018867 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America Cover design: Julia Kushnirsky Contents Foreword: Elias Khoury(cid:3273)ix Introduction: The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Syntax of History, Memory, and Political Thought (cid:4413)(cid:4240)(cid:4824)(cid:4566)(cid:4601)(cid:4808) (cid:4413)(cid:4240)(cid:4824)(cid:4566)(cid:4601)(cid:4808) (cid:4240)(cid:4712)(cid:4449) (cid:4240)(cid:4704)(cid:4738)(cid:4824) (cid:4544)(cid:4738)(cid:4680)(cid:4449)(cid:4413)(cid:4469)(cid:4808)(cid:4544)(cid:3273)1 (cid:4793)(cid:4240)(cid:4808)(cid:4839) (cid:4601) The Holocaust and the Nakba: Enabling Conditions to a New Historical and Political Syntax 1. Harbingers of Jewish and Palestinian Disasters: European Nation-State Building and Its Toxic Legacies, 1912–1948 (cid:4704)(cid:4240)(cid:4808)(cid:4659) (cid:4680)(cid:4469)(cid:4895)(cid:4469)(cid:4712)(cid:4469)(cid:3273)45 2. Muslims (Shoah, Nakba) (cid:4544)(cid:4601)(cid:4680) (cid:4240)(cid:4712)(cid:4601)(cid:4449)(cid:4646)(cid:4240)(cid:4808)(cid:3273)66 3. Benjamin, the Holocaust, and the Question of Palestine (cid:4240)(cid:4704)(cid:4712)(cid:4738)(cid:4712) (cid:4808)(cid:4240)(cid:4948)-(cid:4659)(cid:4808)(cid:4240)(cid:4659)(cid:4738)(cid:4839)(cid:4948)(cid:4659)(cid:4601)(cid:4712)(cid:3273)79 4. When Ya(cid:1016)a Met ((cid:3282)J)Ya(cid:1016)a: Intersections Between the Holocaust and the Nakba in the Shadow of Zionism (cid:4566)(cid:4738)(cid:4712)(cid:4240)(cid:4601)(cid:4449)(cid:4240) (cid:4544)(cid:4566)(cid:4240)(cid:4712)(cid:4601)(cid:4704)(cid:3273)92 9 (cid:4895)(cid:4601)(cid:3273) (cid:3279)(cid:4432)(cid:4738)(cid:4712)(cid:4839)(cid:4469)(cid:4712)(cid:4839)(cid:4824) 5. Holocaust/Nakba and the Counterpublic of Memory (cid:4712)(cid:4240)(cid:4449)(cid:4601)(cid:4704) (cid:4659)(cid:4566)(cid:4738)(cid:4860)(cid:4808)(cid:4922)(cid:3273)114 (cid:4793)(cid:4240)(cid:4808)(cid:4839) (cid:4601)(cid:4601) The Holocaust and the Nakba: History and Counterhistory 6. When Genya and Henryk Kowalski Challenged History–Ja(cid:1016)a, 1949: Between the Holocaust and the Nakba (cid:4240)(cid:4680)(cid:4738)(cid:4712) (cid:4432)(cid:4738)(cid:4712)(cid:4518)(cid:4601)(cid:4712)(cid:4738)(cid:3273)135 7. A Bold Voice Raised Above the Raging Waves: Palestinian Intellectual Najati Sidqi and His Battle with Nazi Doctrine at the Time of World War II (cid:4704)(cid:4860)(cid:4824)(cid:4839)(cid:4240)(cid:4518)(cid:4240) (cid:4659)(cid:4240)(cid:4413)(cid:4566)(cid:4240)(cid:3273)154 8. What Does Exile Look Like? Transformations in the Linkage Between the Shoah and the Nakba (cid:4922)(cid:4738)(cid:4432)(cid:4566)(cid:4601) (cid:4518)(cid:4601)(cid:4824)(cid:4432)(cid:4566)(cid:4469)(cid:4808)(cid:3273)173 9. National Narratives of Su(cid:1016)ering and Victimhood: Methods and Ethics of Telling the Past as Personal Political History (cid:4738)(cid:4704)(cid:4469)(cid:4808) (cid:4413)(cid:4240)(cid:4808)(cid:4839)(cid:4738)(cid:4895)(cid:3273)187 (cid:4793)(cid:4240)(cid:4808)(cid:4839) (cid:4601)(cid:4601)(cid:4601) The Holocaust and the Nakba: The Deployment of Traumatic Signi(cid:1006)ers 10. Culture of Memory: The Holocaust and the Nakba Images in the Works of Lea Grundig and Abed Abdi (cid:4839)(cid:4240)(cid:4680) (cid:4413)(cid:4469)(cid:4712)-(cid:4948)(cid:4895)(cid:4601)(cid:3273)209 11. Ma’abara: Mizra(cid:1108)im Between Shoah and Nakba (cid:4738)(cid:4704)(cid:4808)(cid:4601) (cid:4413)(cid:4469)(cid:4712)-(cid:4922)(cid:4469)(cid:4566)(cid:4860)(cid:4449)(cid:4240)(cid:3273)249 12. From Revenge to Empathy: Abba Kovner from Jewish Destruction to Palestinian Destruction (cid:4566)(cid:4240)(cid:4712)(cid:4712)(cid:4240)(cid:4712) (cid:4566)(cid:4469)(cid:4895)(cid:4469)(cid:4808)(cid:3273)275 = (cid:4432)(cid:4738)(cid:4712)(cid:4839)(cid:4469)(cid:4712)(cid:4839)(cid:4824)(cid:3279) (cid:3273)(cid:4895)(cid:4601)(cid:4601)(cid:3279) (cid:4793)(cid:4240)(cid:4808)(cid:4839) (cid:4601)(cid:4895) On Elias Khoury’s Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam: Narrating the Nakba with the Holocaust 13. Novel as Contrapuntal Reading: Elias Khoury’s Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam (cid:4808)(cid:4469)(cid:4518)(cid:4805)(cid:4240) (cid:4240)(cid:4413)(cid:4860)-(cid:4808)(cid:4469)(cid:4704)(cid:4240)(cid:4601)(cid:4680)(cid:4469)(cid:4566)(cid:3273)295 14. Writing Silence: Reading Khoury’s Novel Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam (cid:4808)(cid:4240)(cid:4469)(cid:4518) (cid:4948)(cid:4808)(cid:4469)(cid:4601)(cid:4659)(cid:3273)307 15. Silence on a Sizzling Tin Roof: A Translator’s Point of View on Children of the Ghetto (cid:4922)(cid:4469)(cid:4566)(cid:4738)(cid:4860)(cid:4449)(cid:4240) (cid:4824)(cid:4566)(cid:4469)(cid:4712)(cid:4566)(cid:4240)(cid:4895)(cid:3273)329 Afterword: The Holocaust and the Nakba (cid:4646)(cid:4240)(cid:4432)(cid:4805)(cid:4860)(cid:4469)(cid:4680)(cid:4601)(cid:4712)(cid:4469) (cid:4808)(cid:4738)(cid:4824)(cid:4469)(cid:3273)353 Bibliography(cid:3273)363 Contributors(cid:3273)385 Index(cid:3273)389 Foreword (cid:4469)(cid:4680)(cid:4601)(cid:4240)(cid:4824) (cid:4659)(cid:4566)(cid:4738)(cid:4860)(cid:4808)(cid:4922) T his book addresses the complicated and multilayered intersections of the Holocaust and Nakba, a challenging theme that has been central to some of my major intellectual and literary works. While working on the second volume of my novel Children of the Ghetto, I came across a shock- ing Israeli term that encapsulates the very essence of the ambiguity created by the Zionist project in Palestine. The labels generally used to describe Palestin- ians, such as “saboteurs” and “terrorists,” are not surprising, as these labels are gleaned from a long-standing colonialist vocabulary. However, these labels bear many connotations, as yesterday’s terrorist may become tomorrow’s prime minister, as was the case with Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir of Israel. He may also be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, as was the case with Yasser Arafat before his being returned to the “terrorist” enclave during the second Palestin- ian Intifada, his siege in the Ramallah compound, and his eventual death. The term that so shocked me is Sabonim, which became widely used shortly after the establishment of the Jewish state. It pointed to the survivors of the Holocaust who had made their way to the “Promised Land.” The term carries dual meanings: a metaphoric allusion to cowardice and a literal meaning deriv- ing from the origin of the word sabon, meaning soap, found in both the Arabic and Hebrew languages. This is a reference to one of the alleged barbaric prac- tices of the Nazi Holocaust, which was to produce soap from the bodies of its victims, an unfounded claim which was held by many as true at that time. Sab- onim is the parallel to the term Muselmänner (Muslims) used to describe the weak among the Jews in Nazi camps, who were so identi(cid:1006)ed in advance of being taken

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