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Holocaust Controversy The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France

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ISBN-10: 1584655097

ISBN-13: 9781584655091

Edition: 2005

Authors: Samuel Moyn

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How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past? These questions are at the heart of this unique investigation of the Treblinka affair that occurred in France in 1966 when Jean-Francois Steiner, a young Jewish journalist, published Treblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp. A cross between a history and a novel, Steiner's book narrated the 1943 revolt at one of the major Nazi death camps. Abetted by a scandalous interview he gave, as well as Simone de Beauvoir's glowing preface, the book shot to the top of the Parisian bestseller list and prompted a wide-ranging controversy in which both…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Publication date: 8/22/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Pierre Rosanvallon is a professor at the Coll�ge de France, Paris, where he holds the chair in the modern and contemporary history of the political. Among many other books, he is the author of The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution.Samuel Moyn is professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of two books, including Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics.

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Preface
The Interview: An Introduction to the Affair
Author and Text
Nazi Criminality between Concentration and Extermination
Jewish Identity in Question
The Revolt of the Witnesses
The Aftermath of the Controversy
Notes
Index