Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'" (Berghahn, 2015)
The Nazis\u2019 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 \u201cprivileged\u201d positions, and their behavior has often been judged as self-serving and harmful to fellow inmates.\nSuch controversial figures constitute an intrinsically important, frequently misunderstood, and often taboo aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on Primo Levi\u2019s concept of the \u201cgrey zone,\u201d this study analyzes the passing of moral judgment on \u201cprivileged\u201d Jews as represented by writers, such as Raul Hilberg, and in films, including Claude Lanzmann\u2019s Shoah and Steven Spielberg\u2019s Schindler\u2019s List.\nNegotiating the problems and potentialities of \u201crepresenting the unrepresentable,\u201d Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone' (Berghahn Books) engages with issues that are fundamental to present-day attempts to understand the Holocaust and deeply relevant to reflections on human nature.\nAdam Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Deakin University, Australia, and a volunteer at the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne, where he initiated the digitization of the Centre\u2019s survivor video testimony collection.\nDr.\u202fYakir\u202fEnglander\u202fis the National Director of Leadership programs at the Israeli-American Council. He also teaches at the AJR. He is a\u202fFulbright\u202fscholar and was a visiting professor of Religion at Northwestern University, the Shalom Hartman Institute and\u202fHarvard Divinity School. His books are Sexuality and the Body in New Religious Zionist Discourse (English/Hebrew and The Male Body in Jewish Lithuanian Ultra-Orthodoxy (Hebrew). He can be reached at: Yakir1212englander@gmail.com\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies