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oapen-20.500.12657-300332024-03-25T09:51:41Z Judging 'Privileged' Jews Brown, Adam History Holocaust ethics collaboration Claude Lanzmann Primo Levi Auschwitz concentration camp Czerniaków Jews Judenrat Nazism Raul Hilberg Sonderkommando The Holocaust thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSR Social groups: religious groups and communities thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PG Relating to religious groups::5PGJ Relating to Jewish people and groups 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. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-20 03:00:28 2020-04-01T12:43:07Z 2020-04-01T12:43:07Z 2013-07-01 book 650063 OCN: 861538723 9781785336560 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30033 eng War & Genocide application/pdf n/a 650063.pdf Berghahn Books 10.2307/j.ctt9qd04w 101581 10.2307/j.ctt9qd04w 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781785336560 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101581 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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