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Adam Brown

Judging 'Privileged' Jews

Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'

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The Nazis' persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called privileged positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi's concept of the grey zone, this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on privileged Jews as represented by writers, such as Raul Hilberg, and in films, i… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-85745-991-6
  • EAN: 9780857459916
  • Produktnummer: 14902550
  • Verlag: Berghahn Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 234 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 498 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 498

Über den Autor


Adam Brown is Lecturer in Media and Communication at Deakin University, Australia. He volunteers at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne, where he initiated the digitization of the Centrea¿¿s survivor video testimony collection. He was awarded the Isi Leibler Prize for the best contribution to advancing knowledge of racial, religious or ethnic prejudice in any time or place for his dissertation,and he is currently working on a monograph on the representation of women in Holocaust film.

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