Irit Dekel is Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program and director of the Olamot Center at Indiana University. She is author of Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. She lives in Bloomington, IN.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: On Witnessing, Social Positions, and Perspective Part I: Majority Witnessing as Othering 1. Witnessing Antisemitism, Performing Philosemitism 2. Before and After the Witnesses 3. Witnessing Jews as Others Part II: Witnessing Others 4. Witnessing as Recognition and Empowerment 5. Witnessing as Activism 6. Solidarity Witnessing Conclusion: Witnessing for a Plural Democracy Notes Bibliography Index
"This book beautifully demonstrates the complex and nuanced way in which different minorities are positioned in relation to each other and how their positionality is shaped through different practices of witnessing of injustice from various majority and minority positions in Germany. It is an amazingly well written work that brings together striking examples from many registers that vary from opera pieces to government statistics, museum exhibits to graffiti written on walls. It is absolutely eye opening, fresh, and enlightening about how minority-majority relationships work in 21st century Germany."-Esra OEzyuerek, author of Being German, Becoming Muslim: Race, Religion, and Conversion in the New Europe "This is a critical and timely contribution to contemporary understandings of Jewishness and Holocaust memory in Germany and beyond. It complicates simple binaries between perpetrators and victims of atrocity."-Damani J. Partridge, author of Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin