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The Shadow and the Flame

A Story of Loss, Survival, and the Making of Holocaust Memory

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The Shadow and the Flame

著者： James McAuley
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An urgent history—intimate in its telling, epic in its scope—of an argument that shaped the postwar world: how to define and remember the Holocaust.

In 1945, the end of World War II also marked the end of the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. Stunned by grief, survivors faced the task of not only forging new lives but also of shaping how this unprecedented cataclysm, an event that did not yet have a name, might be remembered by generations to come. Over time, what they built was a collective memory whose power and resonance few could have ever imagined in the rubble of the destruction.

A magisterial work of history years in the making, The Shadow and the Flame takes as its subject the urgent debate that ensued—one that spanned decades and continents and that was the first of its kind. Acclaimed historian James McAuley takes us into the minds and hearts of the individuals—many well-known, others largely forgotten—who waged that dispute in Europe, the United States, and the newly established state of Israel: from Hannah Arendt, whose reporting from the Eichmann trial enraged her fellow Jews; to Salo Baron, the era’s preeminent Jewish historian, who battled to protect the story of his people from the burden of tragedy; to Elie Wiesel, whose account of life at Auschwitz became the one the world chose to embrace, even as it proved controversial among his peers.

McAuley transports us from Paris to New York, from the desecrated ghettos of Poland to the fledgling kibbutzim of Israel, as the event that gradually came to be called the Holocaust made an uneasy transition into memory—one that, far from being neatly resolved, weighs all too heavily upon the present. Bold, learned, monumental in its scope and infused with the energy and emotion of its principals, The Shadow and the Flame is the dramatic account of the contentious process—at once painful and shot through with urgency and consequence—of crafting history in real time. 20世紀 ユダヤ教 戦争・紛争 歴史 第二次世界大戦 軍 近代
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批評家のレビュー

“James McAuley has written an extraordinary book—one that I didn’t know could be written. The Shadow and the Flame is profoundly moving in its navigation of how the meaning of the Holocaust has been memorialized. It is essential reading.”
—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare With Amber Eyes

"This is a book about thinking the unthinkable, and how thinking the unthinkable turned into a struggle to define Jewishness. James McAuley’s book is powerful storytelling. He draws an arc that takes us from the death camps to the Eichmann trial, and from Eichmann to the destruction of Gaza. But his book is also powerful as a meditation on history, on how history is constructed and the uses to which it can be put. Its lessons are for everyone."
—Louis Menand, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Metaphysical Club and The Free World

“At a time of surging antisemitism, this powerful book studies how Jewish thinkers memorialized the systematic extermination committed by Nazi Germany and its European collaborators. This challenging and insightful book grapples with the unmasterable legacy of the genocide of six million Jews while upholding the dignity of Jewish experience.”
—Gary Bass, author of Judgment at Tokyo

"This is a gripping account of the battles of small groups of survivors to shape the memory of the Holocaust. McAuley takes a vast historical theme and tells it as a story of fully drawn individuals. Moving, compelling, relevant to our times, and beautifully written."
—Simon Kuper, columnist for the Financial Times and bestselling author of Soccernomics
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