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The Banality of Indifference - Zionism and the Armenian Genocide (Hardcover)
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The Banality of Indifference - Zionism and the Armenian Genocide (Hardcover)
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The genocide of Armenians by Turks during the First World War was
one of the most horrendous deeds of modern times and a precursor of
the genocidal acts that have marked the rest of the twentieth
century. Despite the worldwide attention the atrocities received at
the time, the massacre has not remained a part of the world's
historical consciousness. The parallels between the Jewish and
Armenian situations and the reactions of the Jewish community in
Palestine (the Yishuv) to the Armenian genocide, which was muted
and largely self-interested, are explored by Yair Auron. In
attempting to assess and interpret these disparate reactions, Auron
maintains a fairminded balance in assessing claims of altruism and
self-interest, expressed in universal, not merely Jewish, terms.
While not denying the uniqueness of the Holocaust, Auron carefully
distinguishes it from the Armenian genocide reviewing existing
theories and relating Armenian and Jewish experience to ongoing
issues of politics and identity. As a groundbreaking work of
comparative history, this volume will be read by Armenian area
specialists, historians of Zionism and Israel, and students of
genocide. Yair Auron is senior lecturer at The Open University of
Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education. He is the author, in
Hebrew, of Jewish-Israeli Identity, Sensitivity to World Suffering:
Genocide in the Twentieth Century, We Are All German Jews, and
Jewish Radicals in France during the Sixties and Seventies
(published in French as well)
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