Shadows of War

Efrat Ben-Ze'ev is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel. She has published on Palestinian-Arab and Jewish-Israeli memories of the war of 1948. Ruth Ginio is Lecturer in History at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem. Her recent publications include French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa (2006) and Violence and Non-Violence in Africa (as co-editor, 2007). Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995), and War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (as editor, with Emmanuel Sivan, 1999).

• Part I. Framing the Problem: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches: 1. Thinking about silence Jay Winter; 2. The social sound of silence: toward a sociology of denial Eviatar Zerubavel; Part II. Europe: 3. Breaking the silence? Memory and oblivion since the Spanish Civil War Mary Vincent; 4. In the ashes of disgrace: guilt versus shame revisited Jeffrey K. Olick; 5. On silence, madness, and lassitude: negotiating the past in post-war West Germany Svenja Goltermann; Part III. Africa: 6. Silences on state violence during the Algerian War of Independence: France and Algeria, 1962–2007 Raphaëlle Branche and Jim House; 7. African silences: negotiating the story of France's colonial soldiers, 1914–2009 Ruth Ginio; 8. Now that all is said and done: reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa Louise Bethlehem; Part IV. The Middle East: 9. Facing history: denial and the Turkish national security concept Taner Akçam; 10. Imposed silences and self-censorship: Palmach soldiers remember 1948 Efrat Ben-Ze'ev; 11. Forgetting the Lebanon War? On silence, denial and the selective remembrance of the 'First' Lebanon war Asher Kaufman.

"...Shadows of War is worth reading..." -Matthew B. Holmes, Military Review