The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony After Genocide

by Carolyn J. Dean

Book Overview

The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s--covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501735071
• ISBN13: 9781501735073
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher