Description: In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. It searches for a new historical and political grammar for relating and narrating their complicated intersections.
Brief description: Bashir Bashir (PhD, Political Theory, London School of Economics) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at the Open University of Israel and a research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is the coeditor (with Goldberg) of The Holocaust and the Nakba: Memory, National Identity and Arab-Jewish Partnership (Van Leer, 2015; in Hebrew) and (with Will Kymlicka) of The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (Oxford, 2008).
Review Quotes: Of the many points of conflict in Israel-Palestine, none is as confounding as the intersecting claims of collective suffering. At once historical and normative, this landmark volume is the first to reprise the many ways in which the relationship between the Holocaust and Nakba have been imagined since the 1940s. The editors propose a bold, even revolutionary framework for relating these traumas that is a necessary provocation to entrenched patterns of memory.--A. Dirk Moses, author of German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past