The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to
genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became
a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the
emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the
1960s-covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the
Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials,
witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war
crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and
cultural murder. By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness
to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a
symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the
recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral
witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we
understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have
shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture.
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