This blog is a collection of stories that have appeared in the press in different languages, countries and continents on Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi's research on Indian Jews and those in South Asia who consider themselves or are considered by others to be descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel and his efforts to raise Holocaust awareness.
Professor Navras J Aafreedi of Presidency University, who teaches the only course on Jewish history in the subcontinent, has been urging for peace in Gaza. Pro-Palestine solidarity pouring into academic spaces is bringing both sides of the Gaza conflict under the same roof.
“All my students who have opted for Jewish studies understand that conflict cannot be resolved with violence and want an immediate end to the bloodshed,” said Aafreedi.
In an atmosphere of hasty polarization throughout the country Aafreedi said rather than presuming Jewish studies as a form of Israel advocacy, one should consider the subject's heightened importance now in making students historically aware of the genesis of the conflict, and cultivating sensitivity to the issue. [...]
Talking about the unfortunate implication of many Indians adopting a pro-Israel stance as a pretext for launching Islamophobic attacks, Aafreedi clarified that despite his Muslim name, he was born a secular father with Muslim Pathan roots and a Hindu-Sikh mother, "In my case, people were surprised to find a person with a Muslim sounding name studying Jews and anti-Semitism and relentlessly trying to combat anti-Semitism," he said. ...
Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations
Edited By Navras J. Aafreedi, Priya Singh
1st Edition | Copyright Year 2021 | ISBN 9780367699970 | 336 Pages | 8 B/W Illustrations
Published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), London & New York
Series: Mass Violence in Modern History
Book Description
Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia.
The essays explore and deliberate upon the varied aspects of mass violence, namely revisionism, reconstruction, atrocities, trauma, memorialization and literature, the need for Holocaust education, and the criticality of dialogue and reconciliation. The language, content, and characteristics of mass violence/genocide explicitly reinforce its aggressive, transmuting, and multifaceted character and the consequent necessity to understand the same in a nuanced manner. The book is an attempt to do so as it takes episodes of mass violence for case study from all inhabited continents, from the twentieth century to the present. The volume studies ‘consciously enforced mass violence’ through an interdisciplinary approach and suggests that dialogue aimed at reconciliation is perhaps the singular agency via which a solution could be achieved from mass violence in the global context.
The volume is essential reading for postgraduate students and scholars from the interdisciplinary fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, World History, Human Rights, and Global Studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Reading Mass Violence
Navras J. Aafreedi and Priya Singh
Part 1: Narratives
2. Violence and Violations: Betrayal Narratives in Atrocity Accounts
Dennis B. Klein
3. Holocaust survivors in Mexico: Intersecting and Conflicting Narratives of Open Doors, Welcoming Society and Personal Hardships
Daniela Gleizer and Yael Siman
4. Historical Narratives, the Perpetuation of Trauma, and the Work of Vamık Volkan
Reuven Firestone
Part 2: Revisionism & Reconstruction
5. Holocaust, Propaganda, and the Distortion of History in the Former Soviet Space
Charles E. Ehrlich
6. The Genocide of 1971 in Bangladesh: Lessons from History
Srimanti Sarkar
7. Holocaust Denial and Minimization in the Indian Urdu Press
Md. Muddassir Quamar
Part 3: Education
8. Holocaust Studies in Australia: Moving from family and community remembrance to human rights and prevention of mass violence
Suzanne D. Rutland and Suzanne Hampel
9. New Developments in Holocaust & Genocide Education in South Africa: : The case study of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre
Tali Nates
10. A Case of Naive Normalization? India's Misbeliefs about Hitler and Schooling on the Holocaust
Anubhav Roy
11. Holocaust Education in India and its Challenges
Navras J. Aafreedi
Part 4: Reflections
12. Sonderkommando Photo 4 and the Portrayal of the Invisible
David Patterson
13. Overcoming "Intimate Hatreds:" Reflections on Violence against Yazidis
Güneş Murat Tezcür and Tutku Ayhan
14. The State and its Margins: Changing Notions of Marginality in Turkey
Anita Sengupta
Part 5: Trauma
15. Pinochet's Dictatorship and Reflections on Trauma in Chile: How much have we learned in terms of human rights?
17. Fabric, Food, Song: The Quiet Continuities in Bengali Life Seventy Years After Partition
Rituparna Roy
Part 7: Literature
18. The Failure of Secular Publics and the Rise of the Jewish Religious Public in Nathan Englander’s For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Fuzail Asar Siddiqi
Part 8: Dialogue & Reconciliation
19. The 2002 Alexandria Summit and Its Follow Up
David Rosen
Editors
Navras J. Aafreedi is Assistant Professor of History at Presidency University, Kolkata, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, New York. His publications include his monograph Jews, Judaizing Movements and the Traditions of Israelite Descent in South Asia.
Priya Singh is Associate Director at Asia in Global Affairs (www.asiaingloblaffairs.in). Priya is a political scientist with an interest in issues pertaining to geo-politics, nationalism, post-nationalism, identity, state formation and gender. She has authored, edited and co-edited books on Israel and the Middle East.
Contributors
Tutku Ayhan, PhD candidate in Security Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida, USA
Charles Edward Ehrlich, Program Director, Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria
Reuven Firestone, Regenstein Professor in medieval Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College and professor of religion at the University of Southern California, USA
Daniela Gleizer, Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Suzanne Hampel, Tutor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Denis B. Klein, Kean University Professor of History and director of the Jewish Studies Program and the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, USA
Nancy Nicholls, Lecturer, Institute of History, Faculty of History, Geography and Political Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Tali Nates, Founder and Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, South Africa
David Patterson, Hillel A. Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies in the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Md. Muddassir Quamar, Associate Fellow in the Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses, New Delhi, India
Anubhav Roy, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India
David Rosen, American Jewish Committee's International Director of Interreligious Affairs and Director of its Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding, International President of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, Honorary President of the International Council of Christians and Jews
Stephanie Rotem, Visiting Professor for Israel Studies at the Jewish Studies program at the University of Virginia, USA
Rituparna Roy, Independent Scholar, Kolkata, India
Suzanne Rutland, Professor Emerita in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical & Jewish Studies, University of Sydney, Australia
Srimanti Sarkar, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, West Bengal State University, Kolkata, India
Anita Sengupta, Director, Asia in Global Affairs, Kolkata, India
Yael Siman, Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Iberoamericana University, Mexico City
Fuzail Siddiqi, PhD Candidate, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Gunes Murat Tezcur, Jalal Talabani Chair of Kurdish Political Studies, University of Central Florida, USA
Please access the abstractshere and find an article about the bookhere.
הבלוג הזה הוא אוסף של מאמרים שהופיעו בעיתונות בשפות,ארצות ויבשות שונות על מחקרו של ד"ר נברס ג'אאט אאפרידי על יהודים הודים ויהודים מדרום אסיה שנחשבים על ידי עצמם או על ידי אחרים להיות צאצאים של שבטי ישראל האבוים
This blog is a collection of stories that have appeared in the press in different languages, countries and continents on Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi's research on Indian Jews and those in South Asia who consider themselves or are considered by others to be descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel and his efforts to raise Holocaust awareness.
Jews, Judaizing Movements and the Traditions of Israelite Descent in South Asia (2016)
Please click on the image above to read the book online.
Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations (Routledge2021)
Please click on the image above to access the e-book.
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