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Genocide and the Burden of History
What happens to the credibility and power of scholarship when practitioners abandon careful methodology in favor of rhetorical certainty?
Participants with Israel's flag walk along a rail track leading to the gate of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland, during the annual March of The Living to honor the victims of the Holocaust on April 24, 2025. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
What happens to the credibility and power of scholarship when practitioners abandon careful methodology in favor of rhetorical certainty?
In this special episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer explores the intellectual and ethical responsibilities of scholarship in the face of the Gaza war and asks: how can we confront a horror and feel it deeply, yet stop short of giving that horror a name?
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