Witnessing Positions

Irit Dekel is Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program and director of the Olamot Center at Indiana University. She is author of Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. She lives in Bloomington, IN.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Witnessing, Social Positions, and PerspectivePart I: Majority Witnessing as Othering1. Witnessing Antisemitism, Performing Philosemitism2. Before and After the Witnesses3. Witnessing Jews as OthersPart II: Witnessing Others4. Witnessing as Recognition and Empowerment5. Witnessing as Activism6. Solidarity WitnessingConclusion: Witnessing for a Plural DemocracyNotesBibliographyIndex