From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust

by Ester Webman and Meir Litvak

Book Overview

Based on years of research conducted mostly in Arabic sources, Meir Litvak and Ester Webman track the evolution of post-World War II perceptions of the Holocaust and their parallel emergence in the wake of the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1948. Following the establishment of the State of Israel, Arab attitudes toward the Holocaust became entangled with broader anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic sentiments. Litvak and Webman track this discourse through the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231700741
• ISBN13: 9780231700740
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 5.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher