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... lot of the people that he speaks with," says Omer Bartov, author of Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewi...
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Criminal prosecution has become a way to influence collective memory in cases of state-sponsored mass murders, but such efforts call for a degree of dramatization that conflicts with the traditional functions of criminal law. Some issues include abrogation of defendants' rights in the interests of social solidarity, possible distortions of historical understanding, and dangers of such cases as precedent or analogy. The responsibility and guilt may be too widespread. In addition, there may be problems in attempting to deliberately construct collective memory, and dishonesty may be required. Examples from Germany, France, Japan, Israel and Argentina are discussed.
...For a discussion of this issue, see Omer Bartov, Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in...
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... is just one example: "Holocaust historian Omer Bartov bewails in The New Republic 'poisonous rhet...
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PARIS - Who is to blame for the killing of 1.5 million Jews in Nazi-occupied Ukraine? And what can be done now to dispel age-old anti-Semitism in Ukraine, honor Jewish dead and move on?
For the first time, scholars from around the world shared documents and knowledge about the Holocaust in Ukraine at a conference this week in Paris dedicated to this poorly understood passage in Adolf Hitler's torrent of terror across the continent.
...Omer Bartov, a renowned Holocaust expert and history pr...
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IT USED TO BE said that anti-Catholicism was the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals. Today, anti-Semitism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals.
Not all intellectuals, of course. And the seepage of this ancient poison into the intelligentsia -- always so militantly modern -- is much more pronounced in Europe than here. But as anti-Semitism migrates across the political spectrum from right to left, it infects the intelligentsia, which has leaned left for two centuries.
...* Omer Bartov, historian at Brown University, writes in T...
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WASHINGTON -- It used to be said that anti-Catholicism was the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals. Today, anti-Semitism is the anti- Semitism of the intellectuals.
Not all intellectuals, of course. And the seepage of this ancient poison into the intelligentsia -- always so militantly modern -- is much more pronounced in Europe than here. But as anti-Semitism migrates across the political spectrum from right to left, it infects the intelligentsia, which has leaned left for two centuries.
...Omer Bartov, historian at Brown University, writes in T...
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.... (16.) Omer Bartov, review of Michael Burleigh's The Third Rei...
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... October 2003 and the responses by Amos Alon, Omer Bartov, Abraham Foxman and Michael Walzer in "An A...
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WASHINGTON, March 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- More than 500 prominent historians and other scholars have now signed the petition protesting C-SPAN's plan to broadcast a lecture by Holocaust-denier David Irving on its program "Book TV.
The latest signatories include such prominent scholars as New Republic editor-in-chief Dr. Martin Peretz, Harvard Law School Prof. Alan Dershowitz, and Dr. Michael Walzer; Eric Foner, Simon Schama, and Istvan Deak, of Columbia; David Brion Davis, Harold Bloom, and Paul Kennedy of Yale; and Charles Maier and Richard Pipes of Harvard;
... Randolph Braham, Daniel Goldhagen, and Omer Bartov;. -- Leading Jewish historians Jonathan Sar...
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...php?id=748. . Bartov, Omer. 2003. An Alternative Future: An Exchange. N...