Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust

Index

Index 309 abject, 281, 287; abjection, 282, 284, 295, 296 abortion, Holocaust compared to, 293 academic freedom, 80 acculturation, 57 accuracy, historical, 42, 76, 87, 93, 164, 202, 208, 211 acting out, 163, 176, 178; repetition as, 262 Adorno, Theodor, 3, 8, 11, 12, 163, 164, 168, 169, 178, 221, 292 aesthetics, 248, 249 “after Auschwitz” (as concept), 163–79, 196, 296 Agamben, Giorgio, 19, 269–98; Homo Sacer, 274; Means without End, 270; Remnants of Auschwitz, 19, 269–78 agency, 80, 109, 227; disappearance of, 223 Ahasuerus, 18, 225, 237 Alsup, Janet, 14, 18 Amalek, 17, 196, 211, 212, 213 America (United States), 47, 48, 57–63 Améry, Jean, 15, 293 anamnesis, 224 Antelme, Robert, 227 anti-narrative, 28, 29, 30 anti-redemption, 30, 38 anti-Semitism, 15, 18, 56, 97, 100, 101, 172, 175–76, 212, 213, 245, 257, 258, 277; in Blanchot, 221–22 anti-Semites, 278 Arendt, Hannah, 97, 98 Aristotle, 234, 235 Ashcroft, Bill, 64 n.2 assimilation, 57, 156; cultural, 169, 172, 178 atrocity, 14 Augustine, 17, 254–55 Auschwitz, ubiquity of, 275, 285, 293 Austria, 47 authenticity, 4, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 90, 96, 97, 104, 106, 116; discursive, 201; historical , 117; narrative, 91, 92, 94, 95; testimonial, 198 autobiography, 145, 225; Painted Bird (Kosinski ) as, 104–6 Baal-Makhshoves, 65 n.11 Baddeley, Alan, 208 bad faith, narrative, 93 Balibar, Etienne, 303 n.27 Bataille, Georges, 269 Baudrillard, Jean, 130, 132 Bauer, Yehuda, 231, 232, 233 Baumel, Judith Tydor, 68 n.24 Beckett, Samuel, 292 Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane, 16 Bellow, Saul, 16, 162–82; The Bellarosa Connection, 162, 163, 164; The Dangling Man, 162; Herzog, 165–67; Humboldt’s Gift, 16, 164, 166–82; Mr. Sammler’s Planet, 16, 162, 163;The Victim, 162 Benjamin, Walter, 12, 224, 225, 248, 252, 254, 276, 293 Bennett, Cherie (Anne Frank and Me), 151 Berenbaum, Michael, 49 Berger, Alan, 179 n.2 Berger, James, 300 n.14 Bernard-Donals, Michael, 17, 18, 19, 119 n.12, 192, 194 Bernstein, Elitsur, 200 Bernstein, Michael Andre, 44 n.3 Bernstein, Susan David, 16 Bildungsroman, 90, 91, 94, 97, 115 biography, 93, 95 Blanchot, Maurice, 6, 10, 18, 23, 76, 77, 82, 84, 125, 126, 127, 128, 184, 191, 192, 204, 221–30, 251, 259, 266 Blom, Philip, 210 Bloom, Harold, 185 Boder, David, 53–55; I Did Not Interview the Dead, 54 bodies, body, 91, 96, 103, 112, 117 Book of Mormon, 184 Borowski, Tadeusz, 15 Brandan, Michael, 121 n.21 Braun, Rudolf, 216 n.20 Brenner, Rachel Felday, 157 Broszat, Martin, 25, 43 n.8 Bruns, Gerald, 228 n.5 Buber, Martin, 66 n.16, 230 n.23 Bush, George H. W., 86 Butler, Judith, 80 Butler, Octavia (Kindred), 152–53 Carter, Jimmy, 60 Caruth, Cathy, 6, 7, 147, 157, 180 n.4, 196, 198, 203, 204, 205, 259–60 Castiglia, Christopher, 149, 150 Celan, Paul, 275, 294 Center for Holocaust Studies, Documentation and Research, 53 chosenness, concept of, 184, 187–88 Chow, Rey, 150 Cixous, Hélène, 146, 147 Cohen, Sarah Blacher, 167 Cole, Tim, 10 comics, 27–28, 29, 30. See also commix commitment, 292 commix, 127. See also comics commodification (of the Holocaust), 85– 86, 87 contingency, 30, 32, 157 counternarrative, 25 crisis, 76, 80, 84, 85, 87, 88. See also witnessing , crisis of cross-identification, 142 cynicism, 78, 80, 81, 83, 84. See also reason , cynical Dan, Joseph, 66 n.16 Darwin, Charles, 148 Davis, Moshe, 184 Dawidowicz, Lucy, 191, 192 de Gaulle, Charles, 222 de Lauretis, Teresa, 150 Delbo, 129, 205 de Man, Paul, 226 denial, Holocaust, 14, 78–80, 141 deniers, Holocaust, 161 n.42, 183, 211 Derrida, Jacques, 266, 268 desire, 96, 118, 207, 227 dialogism, 156 Diamond, Elin, 146–47 diary, 26, 146; as testimony 156. See also genre Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank), 15 diaspora, 16 differend, the, 183, 184, 189, 190 “disaster, the,” 6, 8, 77, 82, 84, 193, 194, 204, 207, 214, 224, 225, 253 discipline, sympathetic, 250 disidentification, 150 divinity, divine, 18, 249–50, 267 documents, authority of, 52–53 Doesseker, Bruno, 8, 197, 199, 200, 206, 208, 209. See also Wilkomirski, Binjamin ; Fragments double-consciousness, 158, 175 Du Bois, W. E. B., 158 Durkheim, Emil, 269 education, 75 Eichmann, Adolf, 147, 290 310 index Einsatzgruppen, 253, 254, 264 Eisenhower, Dwight, 170, 171 Eisner, Michael, 152 Eliach, Yaffa, 14, 47–74, 253; Hasidic Tales...