The moral witness : trials and testimony after genocide /
Carolyn J. Dean.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (vii, 188 pages).
- Corpus juris : the humanities in politics and law .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The witness as righteous avenger : the Tehlirian and Schwarzbard trials, 1921 and 1927 -- The concentration camp witness : the libel cases of Victor Kravchenko and David Rousset, 1949 and 1951 -- The Holocaust survivor witness : the Eichmann trial -- The global witness and the counter witness.
"The Moral Witness maps the emergence of a 'witness to genocide' over a century, from its origins in interwar court trials to the Jewish Holocaust survivor and to today's global witness, who represents new obligations to suffering humanity at home and abroad"--
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Genocide--Historiography. Genocide--Moral and ethical aspects. Witnesses. Genocide survivors. Trials (Genocide)