Shlomo Sand, Le xxe siècle à l’écran (préface de Michel Ciment), Paris, Le Seuil, 2004, 530 pages, 26 euros.

The author demonstrates how a comparative approach involving the Holocaust, has greatly influenced our knowledge of the genocide of the Tutsi committed in Rwanda in the spring of 1994. The “Hutu vs. Tutsi” formula, as well as the generally accepted concept of the Tutsi being Black Africa's Jews...

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Auteur principal: Ternon, Yves
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spelling cairn-RHSHO1_181_0439bRHSHO1Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah https://shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah1-2004-2-page-451b?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rhsho1.181.0439b Shlomo Sand, Le xxe siècle à l’écran (préface de Michel Ciment), Paris, Le Seuil, 2004, 530 pages, 26 euros. Ternon, Yves2004 fre Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah | 181 | 2 | 2004-07-01 | p. 451b-455b | 1281-1505 RHSHO1_18175 The author demonstrates how a comparative approach involving the Holocaust, has greatly influenced our knowledge of the genocide of the Tutsi committed in Rwanda in the spring of 1994. The “Hutu vs. Tutsi” formula, as well as the generally accepted concept of the Tutsi being Black Africa's Jews, helped create a genocidal ideology, that appeared several decades before the tragedy of 1994. Beyond such parallelism, the author forces us to re-consider how genocidal violence makes us re-think our existing intellectual and conceptual frameworks. In particular, the group identity of the victims, i.e. as a people, a race, or a “conceptual race”? The author finally suggests we should differentiate clearly between “to know and to understand”. Kalisky argues that to understand is quite inadequate when a policy of genocide is applied. This, since it seems to justify it, and uses such inexistent justification when it only has causes.Cairn free access
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description The author demonstrates how a comparative approach involving the Holocaust, has greatly influenced our knowledge of the genocide of the Tutsi committed in Rwanda in the spring of 1994. The “Hutu vs. Tutsi” formula, as well as the generally accepted concept of the Tutsi being Black Africa's Jews, helped create a genocidal ideology, that appeared several decades before the tragedy of 1994. Beyond such parallelism, the author forces us to re-consider how genocidal violence makes us re-think our existing intellectual and conceptual frameworks. In particular, the group identity of the victims, i.e. as a people, a race, or a “conceptual race”? The author finally suggests we should differentiate clearly between “to know and to understand”. Kalisky argues that to understand is quite inadequate when a policy of genocide is applied. This, since it seems to justify it, and uses such inexistent justification when it only has causes.
author Ternon, Yves
spellingShingle Ternon, Yves
Shlomo Sand, Le xxe siècle à l’écran (préface de Michel Ciment), Paris, Le Seuil, 2004, 530 pages, 26 euros.
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title Shlomo Sand, Le xxe siècle à l’écran (préface de Michel Ciment), Paris, Le Seuil, 2004, 530 pages, 26 euros.
title_short Shlomo Sand, Le xxe siècle à l’écran (préface de Michel Ciment), Paris, Le Seuil, 2004, 530 pages, 26 euros.
title_full Shlomo Sand, Le xxe siècle à l’écran (préface de Michel Ciment), Paris, Le Seuil, 2004, 530 pages, 26 euros.
title_fullStr Shlomo Sand, Le xxe siècle à l’écran (préface de Michel Ciment), Paris, Le Seuil, 2004, 530 pages, 26 euros.
title_full_unstemmed Shlomo Sand, Le xxe siècle à l’écran (préface de Michel Ciment), Paris, Le Seuil, 2004, 530 pages, 26 euros.
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