Description
A comparative history of Native American, First Nations and Jewish histories of trauma that challenges their representation in North American and European public memory.
About the Author
Gideon Mailer Associate Professor and Chair of the History Program at University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA. A contributor to the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Project and other initiatives connecting American Indian Studies and Holocaust Studies, he has also helped to spearhead a new Museum Studies program with the intent to integrate Indigenous memory and Holocaust studies at his institution.
Reviews
With great reflection and compassion, Gideon Mailer identifies how genocide and massacre have impacted Jews and Indigenous peoples, not only in the political, cultural and social spheres, but also in the imaginaries of these groups, their collective archives so that they retain a kinship previously unexamined. * Kitty Millet, Associate Professor, San Francisco University, USA *
This is an ambitious, generous, and much needed book. It addresses anxieties that have made it hard to see links between the experience and representation of anti-Jewish and anti-indigenous genocides. More impressive still, it does so without overly generalizing the experiences and sensibilities of indigenous people or Jews themselves or reducing them solely to victimhood. It should foster many productive and critical discussions. I hope it will be widely read. * Jonathan Boyarin, Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350240636
Author Gideon Mailer
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 464g