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Pages: 384
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Publication Date: 07 April 1998
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780231102094
Format: Paperback
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HISTORY / Europe / General
The well-translated and coherently combined essays gathered in The Jews treat a range of issues from the ancient Jewish revolt against Roman rule and the much-mythologized martyrdom at Masada, the French Revolution, the Dreyfus Affair, and Marxism's difficulties with 'the Jewish Question,' to Nazi genocide and the deep problems of representing it.
Pierre Vidal-Naquet is the author of many books, including The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World and Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (both with Jean-Pierre Vernant) and Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust (Columbia).David Ames Curtis is a translator whose credits include works by Cornelius Castoriadis as well as Vidal-Naquet and Pierre Leveque's Cleisthenes the Athenian.

Translator's Note
Foreward by Paul Berman
Preface to the English-Language Edition
Part One: Origins and History
1. Forms of Political Activity in the Jewish World, Principally Around the First Century C.E.
2. Flavius Josephus and Masada
3. Flavius Josephus and the Prophets
4. Apropos of Zakhor
Part Two: Emancipation and History
5. The Privilege of Liberty
6. Dreyfus in the Affair and in History
7. Jewish Prism, Marxist Prism
Part Three: Destruction, Memory, and the Present
8. The Hero, the Historian, and Choice
9. The Historian and the Test of Murder
10. The Shoah's Challenge to History
11. On an Interpretation of the Great Massacre: Arno Mayer and the 'Final Solution'
12. And by the Power of a Word...
13. A Wonderful School...
14. The Harmonics of Szymon Laks
15. Presentation of a Document: The Journal of Attorney Lucien Vidal-Naquet
Part Four: History, Memory, and the Present
16. Reflections at the Margins of a Tragedy
17. Return to Israel
18. 'Inquiry into a Massacre', by Amnon Kapeliouk
19. The Anti-Peace Colonists
Part Five: Conclusion
20. Recollections of a Witness: Protestants and Jews During the Second World War in France
Notes
Index