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Author Vidal-Naquet, Pierre, 1930-2006.

Title The Jews : history, memory, and the present / Pierre Vidal-Naquet ; translated and edited by David Ames Curtis ; with a foreword by Paul Berman and a new preface by the author
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 1996

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Description xxiii, 337 pages ; 24 cm
Series European perspectives
European perspectives.
Contents Foreword / Paul Berman -- 1. Forms of Political Activity in the Jewish World, Principally Around the First Century C.E. -- 2. Flavius Josephus and Masada -- 3. Flavius Josephus and the Prophets -- 4. Apropos of Zakhor -- 5. The Privilege of Liberty -- 6. Dreyfus in the Affair and in History -- 7. Jewish Prism, Marxist Prism -- 8. The Hero, the Historian, and Choice -- 9. The Historian and the Test of Murder -- 10. The Shoah's Challenge to History -- 11. On an Interpretation of the Great Massacre: Arno Mayer and the "Final Solution" -- 12. And by the Power of a Word ... -- 13. A Wonderful School... -- 14. The Harmonics of Szymon Laks -- 15. Presentation of a Document: The Journal of Attorney Lucien Vidal-Naquet -- 16. Reflections at the Margins of a Tragedy -- 17. Return to Israel -- 18. "Inquiry Into a Massacre" / Amnon Kapeliouk -- 19. The Anti-Peace Colonists -- 20. Recollections of a Witness: Protestants and Jews During the Second World War in France
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-307) and index
Notes Translation of: Juifs, la meḿoire et le preśent
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
Jewish-Arab relations.
Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D.
Jews -- France -- History.
SUBJECT France -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104157
Author Curtis, David Ames.
LC no. 95020960
ISBN 0231102089 (alk. paper)
0231102097
Other Titles Juifs, la mémoire et le présent. English