Gideon Mailer is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Program at University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA. A contributor to the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Project and other initiatives connecting American Indian Studies and Holocaust Studies, he has also helped to spearhead a new Museum Studies program with the intent to integrate Indigenous memory and Holocaust studies at his institution.
Introduction: Traumatic Memory and the Indigenous-Jewish Connection
1. Biological Determinism and the Problem of Perpetrator Intent
2. Indigenous People, Jews, and the Americanization of the Holocaust
3. Indigenous Genocide, the Holocaust, and European Public Memory
4. Public Memory and the Problem of Imperial Power
5. Traumatic Memory, Assimilation, and Cultural Renewal
Conclusion