In this book the authors examine the effects of a globalized Holocaust culture on the ways in which individuals and groups understand the moral and political significance of their respective histories of extreme political violence. Taking Argentina, Spain and a number of sites in post-communist Europe as test cases, this book illustrates the transformation from a nationally oriented ethics to a trans-national one. The authors look at media, scholarly discourse, NGOs dealing with human rights and memory, museums and memorial sites, and examine how a new generation of memory activists revisits the past to construct a new future.

Alejandro Baer is Associate Professor of Sociology, Stephen C. Feinstein Chair and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Natan Sznaider is a Full Professor of Sociology at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel.

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Acknowledgments

1 The Ethics of Never Again: global constellations

2 Nunca Más : Argentine Nazis and Judíos del Sur

3 Francoism reframed: the disappeared of the Spanish Holocaust

4 Eastern Europe: exhuming competing pasts

5 Beyond Antigone and Amalek : toward a memory of hope

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