Witnessing the Witness of War Crimes, Mass Murder, and Genocide

Manuela Consonni and Philip Nord
Introduction 1

Carolyn J. Dean
The Witness to Genocide in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 13

Uri S. Cohen
Primo Levi between the Editions 31

Ran Shauli
Inside and Outside the Courtroom: Witnessing the Massacres of Chinese in Japanese Occupied Malaya, Singapore, and Rabaul 49

Toni Rovatti
Divided Memories? The Last Testimonies on Nazi Massacres in Italy 79

Valentina Pisanty
Identification and Make-Believe: The Fallacies of Prosthetic Memory 111

Fabien Théofilakis
Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem: Defendant and Witness in the Glass Booth? 129

Joan Ramon Resina
The Witness’s Brew. On Imposture and Impostor Hunting 157

Vera Schwarcz
Expanding Historical Empathy: How the Holocaust is Helping Chinese Remember Atrocities of the Mao Era 181

Amos Goldberg
Witnesses, Silence and Mimicry in Elias Khoury’s “Children of the Ghetto” 197

Anna Pollmann
No Judges, Only Witnesses: Witnessing Genocide in the Vietnam Tribunalʼs Courtroom Setting of 1966–1967 217

Leona Toker
Not Typical but Typifying: Varlam Shalamov’s “A Piece of Meat” 239

Martina Weisz
Witnessing as Counter-Power: Testimony and Crimes against Humanity in the Argentinian Province of Jujuy 249

Index 269