From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust

Meir Litvak and Ester Webman

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Paper, 416 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70075-7
$22.00

April, 2009
Cloth, 416 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70074-0
$30.00

Chapters: Reluctantly Involved "Bystander:" 1945-1948; The Reparations Agreement between Germany and Israel; The Eichmann Trial: 1960-1962; Arab Views on the Catholic Church and the Holocaust; Denial of the Holocaust; The Unfinished Job Justification of the Holocaust; The Equation of Zionism with Nazism; The Alleged Nazi-Zionist Cooperation; Arab Retrospective Perceptions of Nazi Germany; The Palestinian Catastrophe (Nakba) versus the Holocaust; Breaking Taboos: The New Arab Discourse on the Holocaust

Related Subjects

• Islam
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Meir Litvak is senior lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University and the author of, among other works, Shi'i Scholars in 19th Century Iraq: The Shi'i 'Ulama of Najaf and Karbala.Esther Webman is a research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and the Steven Roth Institute for the study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University.

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