TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown, Adam
AB  - The Nazis’ persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust included the creation of prisoner hierarchies that forced victims to cooperate with their persecutors. Many in the camps and ghettos came to hold so-called “privileged” positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates. Such controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi’s concept of the “grey zone,” this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on “privileged” Jews as represented by writers, such as Raul Hilberg, and in films, including Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. Negotiating the problems and potentialities of “representing the unrepresentable,” this book engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt9qd04w
ID  - OAPEN ID: 650063
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 861538723
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30033
KW  - History
KW  - Holocaust ethics
KW  - collaboration
KW  - Claude Lanzmann
KW  - Primo Levi
KW  - Auschwitz concentration camp
KW  - Czerniaków
KW  - Jews
KW  - Judenrat
KW  - Nazism
KW  - Raul Hilberg
KW  - Sonderkommando
KW  - The Holocaust
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSR Social groups: religious groups and communities
KW  - thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PG Relating to religious groups::5PGJ Relating to Jewish people and groups
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30033/1/650063.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30033/1/650063.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30033/1/650063.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31669
PB  - Berghahn Books
PY  - 2013-07-01
SN  - 9781785336560
TI  - Judging 'Privileged' Jews : Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'
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