Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Theologische Zeitschrift
Angaben zur Quelle:
69,4 (2013) 636-647
Schlagwort(e):
Eichmann trial, Jerusalem, 1961
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War crime trials History 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Kurzfassung:
Dismisses the widespread view that the Israeli and U.S. cultures were silent about the Holocaust during 1945-60, and that it was the Eichmann trial which evoked interest in this tragedy, and designated the word "Holocaust" to be used in public discourse. States that the period 1945-60 witnessed many Jewish publications, both academic (e.g. Philip Friedman and Gerald Reitlinger) and memoirs, on the topic, and that the word "Holocaust" was introduced mainly by Elie Wiesel and other speakers on the topic. It was historians who dealt with World War II and German Nazism who neglected the Holocaust, or relegated it to merely one page of Jewish history. The significance of the Eichmann trial was not in the fact that people began to speak about the Holocaust, but that masses of people were eager to listen to this narrative, and that it entered the Jewish imagination.
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