| | | Document Type | : | Latin Dissertation | | Language of Document | : | English | | Record Number | : | 55022 | | Doc. No | : | TL24976 | | Call number | : | MR29620 | | Main Entry | : | Annie Szamosi | | Title & Author | : | Rudolf Kasztner in history, in testimony, and in memoryAnnie Szamosi | | College | : | York University (Canada) | | Date | : | 2006 | | Degree | : | M.A. | | student score | : | 2006 | | Page No | : | 290 | | Abstract | : | Rudolf Kasztner's negotiations with Adolf Eichmann to effect the rescue of Hungarian Jews is a controversial aspect of Holocaust history: one that has taken on dimensions that reach into personal and political spheres. Told from a perspective of the author's familial connection to the story, this thesis offers a close reading of the existing historical literature and incorporates new material in the form of recent interviews with its participants. Looking at issues of historical narrative, cultural trauma and collective memory it also demonstrates how opinions about the Kasztner affair are linked to public attitudes towards the Holocaust both within and outside Israel, to Jewish identity, and to Israel's relationship with its neighbors. The thesis argues that the traits displayed by some historical narratives such as an assumption of causality, the exclusion of the arbitrary and a rejection of ambivalence can obstruct both individuals' and nations' ability to learn from history. | | Subject | : | Social sciences; European history; 0335:European history | | Added Entry | : | York University (Canada) |
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