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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Transformative Trials and Dilemmas of Democracy 1 The Kastner Trial Chapter 1. Performing the Past: The Role of the Political Lawyer 19 Chapter 2. From Faust to Kastner: The Judge as Storyteller 41 Chapter 3. The Poet’s Countertrial 67 The Eichmann Trial Chapter 4. A Tale of Two Narratives 85 Chapter 5. Reflective Judgment and the Spectacle of Justice 117 Chapter 6. Social Criticism in the Shadow of a Transformative Trial 145 The Kufr Qassem Trial Chapter 7. Between Ordinary Politics and Transformative Politics 169 The Yigal Amir Trial Chapter 8. “A Jewish and Democratic State” Reconsidered 201 Conclusion: Between Transformative Trials and Truth Commissions 237 Notes 259 Bibliography 343 Table of Cases 365 Index 369 ...

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