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The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered

edited by Rebecca Wittmann

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2021
Category
Jewish, Holocaust, International, Germany
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487538378
    Publish Date
    Oct 2021
    List Price
    $79.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487508494
    Publish Date
    Oct 2021
    List Price
    $79.00

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The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered brings together leading authorities in a transnational, international, and supranational study of Adolf Eichmann, who was captured by the Israelis in Argentina and tried in Jerusalem in 1961.

 

The essays in this important new collection span the disciplines of history, film studies, political science, sociology, psychology, and law. Contributing scholars adopt a wide historical lens, pushing outwards in time and space to examine the historical and legal influence that Adolf Eichmann and his trial held for Israel, West Germany, and the Middle East. In addition to taking up the question of what drove Eichmann, contributors explore the motivation of prosecutors, lawyers, diplomats, and neighbouring countries before, during, and after the trial ended.

 

The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered puts Eichmann at the centre of an exploration of German versus Israeli jurisprudence, national Israeli identities and politics, and the conflict between German, Israeli, and Arab states.

About the author

Rebecca Wittmann is an associate professor of History at the University of Toronto.

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Editorial Reviews

“By offering multifaceted views on the former aspects, the volume does an excellent job in summarizing an ever more complex subject of Holocaust studies.”

<em>Clark University German Studies Review</em>

"This excellent collection of essays revisits the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann from disciplinary perspectives ranging from law to history to psychology to film studies."

<em>Central European History</em>