The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide - Brossura

Auron, Yair

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ISBN 10: 076580834X ISBN 13: 9780765808349

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2004

Riassunto

The Banality of Denial examines the attitudes of the State of Israel and its leading institutions toward the Armenian Genocide. Israel's view of this issue has special significance and deserves an attentive study, as it is a country composed of a people who were victims of the Holocaust. The Banality of Denial seeks both to examine the passive, indifferent Israeli attitude towards the Armenian Genocide, and to explore active Israeli measures to undermine attempts at safeguarding the memory of the Armenian victims of the Turkish persecution.

Such an inquiry into attempts at denial by Israeli institutions and leading figures of Israel's political, security, academic, and Holocaust "memory-preservation" elite has not merely an academic significance. It has considerable political relevance, both symbolic and tangible.

In The Banality of Denial--as in Auron's previous work--moral, philosophical, and theoretical questions are of paramount importance. Because no previous studies have dealt with these issues or similar ones, an original methodology is employed to analyze the subject with regard to four domains: political, educational, media, and academic.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Yair Auron is senior lecturer at The Open University of Israel and the Kibbutzim College of Education.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 076580834X
• ISBN 13: 9780765808349
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 360