<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="AppleOriginalContents"><div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; ">by Todd Carmody</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; ">University of Pennsylvania</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><br></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>This essay argues that Charles Reznikoff ’s Holocaust is a response to the controversy</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>that broke out among Jewish intellectuals in the wake of the trial of Adolf Eichmann. I</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>demonstrate that Reznikoff ’s documentary poems, drawn from transcripts of the Eichmann</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>and Nuremberg trials, work to undercut the politicization of survivor testimony</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>in the Israeli prosecution’s case against Eichmann. Reznikoff implicitly sides with Hannah</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>Arendt against the sentimental Zionist cause for which his wife Marie Syrkin and</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>Attorney General Gideon Hausner fought. My central claim is that Holocaust appropriates</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>survivors’ language in order to demonstrate the limits and political dangers of</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>appropriating emotion. As such, Reznikoff’s objectivist approach offers an alternative to</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>recent work on historical trauma, models that often call on us to identify with survivors</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 19px; "><font face="Century Schoolbook" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal 'Century Schoolbook'; font-size: 17px; "><i>in order to understand the Holocaust.</i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Schoolbook'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i><br></i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Schoolbook'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><i></i></span></font></div></div></div></body></html>