Haim Hazan is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University, where he is also co-director of the Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life. He is the author of several books, including The Limbo People; Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions; Managing Change in Old Age; A Paradoxical Community; From First Principles; Simulated Dreams: Israeli Youth and Virtual Zionism, and Serendipity in Anthropological Research: The Nomadic Turn (edited with Esther Herzog).

Preface
Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan

SECTION I: INTRODUCTIONS

Chapter 1. Ethics, Identity and Anti-Fundamental Fundamentalism: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age (a cultural-political introduction)
Amos Goldberg

Chapter 2. Globalized Holocaust: An Anthropological Oxymoron (an anthropological- theoretical introduction)
Haim Hazan

SECTION II: HOW GLOBAL IS HOLOCAUST MEMORY?

Chapter 3. The Holocaust isn't--and isn't Likely to Become--a Global Memory
Peter Novick

Chapter 4. The Holocaust as a Symbolic Manual: The French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Global Memories
Alon Confino

Chapter 5. "After Auschwitz":A Constitutive Turning Point in Moral Philosophy
Ronit Peleg

Chapter 6. Cosmopolitan Body: the Holocaust as Route to the Globally Human
Nigel Rapport

SECTION III: MEMORY, TRAUMA AND TESTIMONY: THE HOLOCAUST AND NON-WESTERN MEMORIES

Chapter 7. Holocaust Memories and Cosmopolitan Practices: Humanitarian Witnessing between Emergencies and the Catastrophe
Michal Givoni

Chapter 8. The Global Semiotics of Trauma and Testimony: A Comparative Study of Jewish-Israeli, Canadian-Cambodian and Cambodian Genocidal Descendant Legacies
Carol Kidron

Chapter 9. Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness
Louise Bethlehem

Chapter 10. Commemorating the Twentieth Century: The Holocaust and Nonviolent Struggle in Global Discourse
Tamar Katriel

Chapter 11. Rethinking the Politics of the Past: Multidirectional Memory in the Archives of Implication
Michael Rothberg

SECTION IV: THE POETICS OF THE GLOBAL EVENT: A CRITICAL VIEW

Chapter 12. Pain & Pleasure in Poetic Representations of the Holocaust
Rina Dudai

Chapter 13. Auschwitz: George Tabori's Short Joke
Shulamith Lev-Aladgem

Chapter 14. The Law of Dispersion: a Reading of W.G. Sebald's Prose
Jacob Hessing

Chapter 15. Holocaust Envy: Globalization of the Holocaust in Israeli Discourse
Batya Shimony

SECTION V: CLOSURE

Chapter 16. The Kristallnacht as Symbolic Turning Point in Nazi Rule
Emanuel Marx

Chapter 17. A Personal Postscript
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi

List of Contributors

Index