Markus Kirchhoff, Häuser der Bücher. Bilder Jüdischer Bibliotheken, Leipzig, Reclam (hg. vom Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur), 2002, 191 pages.

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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Autor principal: Trimbur, Dominique
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Idioma:Français
Publicat: 2004
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spelling cairn-RHSHO1_181_0439fRHSHO1Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah https://shs.cairn.info/revue-revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah1-2004-2-page-463f?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rhsho1.181.0439f Markus Kirchhoff, Häuser der Bücher. Bilder Jüdischer Bibliotheken, Leipzig, Reclam (hg. vom Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur), 2002, 191 pages. Trimbur, Dominique2004 fre Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah | 181 | 2 | 2004-07-01 | p. 463f-465f | 1281-1505 RHSHO1_18179 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 Trimbur, Dominique
spellingShingle Trimbur, Dominique
Markus Kirchhoff, Häuser der Bücher. Bilder Jüdischer Bibliotheken, Leipzig, Reclam (hg. vom Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur), 2002, 191 pages.
author_facet Trimbur, Dominique
author_sort Trimbur, Dominique
title Markus Kirchhoff, Häuser der Bücher. Bilder Jüdischer Bibliotheken, Leipzig, Reclam (hg. vom Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur), 2002, 191 pages.
title_short Markus Kirchhoff, Häuser der Bücher. Bilder Jüdischer Bibliotheken, Leipzig, Reclam (hg. vom Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur), 2002, 191 pages.
title_full Markus Kirchhoff, Häuser der Bücher. Bilder Jüdischer Bibliotheken, Leipzig, Reclam (hg. vom Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur), 2002, 191 pages.
title_fullStr Markus Kirchhoff, Häuser der Bücher. Bilder Jüdischer Bibliotheken, Leipzig, Reclam (hg. vom Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur), 2002, 191 pages.
title_full_unstemmed Markus Kirchhoff, Häuser der Bücher. Bilder Jüdischer Bibliotheken, Leipzig, Reclam (hg. vom Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur), 2002, 191 pages.
title_sort markus kirchhoff, häuser der bücher. bilder jüdischer bibliotheken, leipzig, reclam (hg. vom simon-dubnow-institut für jüdische geschichte und kultur), 2002, 191 pages.
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