Index
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Abraham, 47, 66–67
Abu-Lughod, Lila, 111, 113; Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory, 111
Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), 207
Adalah (Israel), 178
Aeschylus (Oresteia), 158
Ahabath Israel, 51
AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), 117
Allan, Diana K., 112
alterity, 5–6, 15, 31; and constitutive disruption of autonomy and univocity, 6, 27, 38, 41–42, 60; and ethical relationality, 9, 12, 17, 21, 24, 27, 30, 38–39, 41–50, 55–63, 66–67, 117, 127–30, 153, 214; and Jewish origins, 28–31, 38, 48–49, 99, 120; and translation, 8–9, 12; see also plurality
American Revolution, 100, 140, 148
anti-Semitism, 48, 60, 76, 99, 117–18, 131, 133–38, 140, 142, 154, 179, 186, 188, 203–4; and criticism of Israel, 1, 20, 26, 116, 118, 186, 195, 203, 210
Arabs, 28–29, 34, 36–37, 48, 52, 120, 139, 142–46, 187, 197; and Jewish origins, 14, 28–29, 30, 48, 139; see also Jewishness
Arab Jew, 28, 30–31, 48, 139, 140, 198, 211, 215, 228n2
Arendt, Hannah, 14, 20, 51, 76–77, 99, 110, 114, 119, 123–24, 202, 234n6; 235n29, 236n30, 237n31, 238n9; and cohabitation, 23–24, 43–44, 100–1, 113, 119, 121–22, 125–26, 151–54, 166–69, 172, 176–78; and critique of nation-state, 21, 24–25, 35–36, 100–2, 120–21, 131, 134–38, 141–50, 152–54, 210; Eichmann in Jerusalem, 51, 100, 125, 132, 139, 141, 151–80; on Eichmann trial, 151–74, 176, 178, 196; Eurocentrism of, 139–41; The Human Condition, 138, 174, 176; and Israel/Palestine politics, 25, 35–36, 51, 101, 117, 120–22, 127, 132, 137–46, 149–54, 179–80, 210; The Jew as Pariah, 35; and Jewishness, 14, 116, 120, 154, 176–77; Jewish Writings, 35, 134, 143; On Revolution, 35, 148; The Origins of Totalitarianism, 100, 121, 135, 141, 146, 150; on thinking and judgment, 140, 153–59, 161, 164, 169–76; on Zionism, 21, 35–36, 101, 116–53, 198
Aristotle, 65
Asad, Talal, 12, 14, 115
Ashkenazi, hegemony of, 28, 198, 242n12; see also Jewishness
Augustine, 122
Aufbau, 134
Auschwitz, 186, 187, 192, 196, 202, 203
 
Babel, 107
Balibar, Etienne, 16–17, 226n19
Baudelaire, 110
Begin, Menachem, 187, 200, 203
Beirut, 52, 186, 187, 200, 210
belonging, 7, 16, 36, 52, 120, 127–29, 135–51; and ethics, 22–26, 31, 50, 125, 137–38, 149–51, 174, 180; modes of, 2–5, 21–22, 31, 46, 50, 101, 115–16, 121, 127, 131, 140–41, 146–49, 180, 200; national, 25, 50, 62, 100, 107, 121, 124, 129, 134, 136–37, 142–44, 146, 148, 168, 199, 232n1, 236n29; rights of, 101, 127, 180, 213
Ben-Gurion, David, 25, 36, 101
Benjamin, Walter, 13, 16, 40, 67, 76, 112, 125–26, 129–30, 174, 200, 208, 226n8, 233n7, 231n10; The Arcades Project, 102; “Critique of Violence,” 70–98, 174; and divine violence, 71–75, 77–96; and history, 69–70, 93–94, 99–113, 123–24, 129; Illuminations, 123; and the messianic, 69–70, 73, 76–77, 85–96, 99–100, 103–10, 113, 129, 153; “Task of the Translator,” 70; “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 40, 70, 93–94, 100, 102–3, 110, 123–24; Trauerspiel, 123; and Zionism, 69, 75–76, 223
Bergson, Henri, 75
Bible, 30, 58
Biletzki, Anat, 227n22
binationalism, 4–7, 18–20, 25, 28–32, 36, 50, 53, 101, 119–20, 131, 142, 145, 152–53, 205, 210–17, 224; and diaspora, 7, 15, 31, 110, 152, 180, 208–9, 212–15; wretched forms of, 4, 18, 30, 210–13, 215
Brecht, Bertolt, 111
Bresheeth, Haim, 112
Buber, Martin, 25, 35–38, 49–51, 75–76, 120, 135, 142, 145, 167, 214, 228n9, 242n12; A Land of Two Peoples, 214
Burg, Avraham, 198–200, 239n17; The Holocaust Is Over, We Must Rise from Its Ashes, 198
 
Cain, 186
Caruth, Cathy, 112–13
Catholicism, 46, 115
Christ, 103
Christianity, 14, 23, 34, 35, 46–48, 49, 75, 115
Chronicle of a Disappearance (film), 112
citizenship, 1, 14, 17–18, 26, 32–34, 76, 98, 101, 110, 114, 118–21, 130–31, 134, 137, 142, 144, 152, 178–79, 211–13, 215, 236n29
cohabitation, 1, 3–5, 9, 11, 21, 30, 49–50, 99, 104, 111, 113, 121–23, 131, 166–69, 172, 207; as condition of ethical and political life, 7, 15–16, 23–24, 43, 50, 62–63, 100, 117–19, 125, 127–28, 130, 153, 176–80; vs. cooperation and coexistence, 34, 36–38, 216; unchosen, 24–25, 43–44, 100–1, 125–26, 151–52, 166, 176–77, 211, 214, 217
Cohen, Hermann, 73, 75, 140–41, 153, 156, 234n6; Ethic of the Pure Will, 73
colonial rule, see Israel; Palestine
Connolly, William, 115, 126
 
Darwish, Mahmoud, 26, 27, 51–52, 99, 205, 208, 211, 214, 229n16; and elegy to Edward Said, 217–24; Memory for Forgetfulness, 52; on Palestinian life, 221–24
Declaration of the Rights of Man, 147
Delbo, Charlotte, 192; Auschwitz and After, 192
departure, 2–6, 15, 18, 42–43, 67, 91, 115, 127–28; from Jewish-centered frameworks, 2–3, 5, 15, 26–27, 99, 116, 127, 149–50, 215; and ethics of self-departure, 3, 5–6, 8–9, 27
Derrida, Jacques, 13, 39, 76–77, 107, 192; Specters of Marx, 76
diaspora, 16, 50–51, 122, 152, 195, 212–13; ethical and political principles from, 1, 6–7, 15–17, 28, 31, 49, 50, 53, 99, 110, 117, 120, 152–53, 180, 202, 208–10, 214–15; and Jewishness, 1, 5–7, 14–15, 20–21, 23, 28, 37, 45, 49, 117, 136, 149, 152–53, 202, 215–16; Palestinian, 30, 101, 110, 120, 206–10, 213, 216; see also exile
 
Eichmann, Adolf (trial), 23, 44, 100, 125, 132–33, 136, 139–41, 148, 151–74, 177, 181, 196
Enlightenment, the, 136, 236n29; French, 3
Eretz Yisrael, 18
Esau, 58
Esmeir, Samera, 211
ethical commandment, 10–11, 17, 39, 41, 48, 54–59, 62–63, 66–67, 73–75, 80–89, 91, 97, 230n4, 231n14; see also responsibility
exile, 5–6, 14–17, 25–26, 29, 49, 110–13, 118, 120–27, 135, 143–44, 149, 151–53, 180, 198, 205–24; see also diaspora; Naqba; refugee
 
“the face” (Levinas), 10, 38–39, 43–44, 47, 54–59, 61, 63, 225n6; and faceless, 23, 39, 48–50
Falk, Richard, 179
Fanon, Frantz, 139
fascism, 26, 65, 76–77, 86, 94, 111, 121, 132, 135, 137–38, 141, 143, 149, 156, 186, 200; see also Nazi
Felman, Shoshana, 112
Final Solution, 133, 155–56, 160; see also Nazi
First World War, 140, 142, 143
First Zionist Congress (1897), 116, 140
forgetfulness, 49, 70, 94, 96, 99, 112, 124, 129, 182, 191, 197–98, 201–2, 208, 216
forgiveness, 70, 80, 93–97, 138, 182
Foucault, Michel, 31
Frames of War, 129
French Revolution, 148
Freud, Sigmund, 31, 49
 
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 11, 225n8
galut, 6, 15, 123, 152
Gaza, 4, 20, 30, 37, 50, 92, 97, 118, 178, 202, 216, 224, 232n3, 239n13
genocide, 19, 24, 32, 100, 110, 151, 165–67, 171, 174–75; Nazi, 14, 24–26, 30, 32, 44, 45, 102, 112–13, 121, 125, 132, 152, 156–57, 177, 186–87, 198–201, 240n17; and nonthinking, 153–55, 172
Global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, 216
God, 16, 22, 40, 51–52, 74–75, 79–81, 96, 116, 122, 132, 137, 162, 222; Jewish God, 74, 80, 96
Goldstone, Richard (Goldstone Report), 178–80
Gottlieb, Susannah, 122, 234n7, 237n7
“grey zone,” 184–86, 188; see also Levi
Grodzinsky, Yosef, 25; In the Shadow of the Holocaust, 25
guilt, 40, 45, 70, 73–75, 78–90, 95–96, 132, 162, 185, 190, 194; collective, 133, 154, 157, 160–62, 165–66; expiation of, 74, 78, 80, 82–86, 88–96, 185; and survival, 185–88
 
Haaretz, 50, 97, 202
Habermas, Jürgen, 7, 226n8
Haifa, 34, 52
Hamacher, Werner, 92
Hamas, 178
Hammami, Rema, 111
happiness, 73, 84, 87–91
Hegel, G. W. F., 107, 119
Heidegger, Martin, 148, 166, 238n9
Herzl, Theodor, 116
Hezbollah, 97
Hillel, 40, 122, 138
Hirschkind, Charles, 14, 115
history, and convergences of, 16, 30–31, 100, 110, 113, 120–21, 123, 126–30, 214–16; cultural and political transpositions of, 8, 10–11, 23, 29, 110–13, 120–23, 128–30, 182, 184, 186–87, 194–95, 199–201, 202; effacement of, 207–8; and the messianic, 94, 99, 103–7, 110, 113, 122–23, 129–30, 153; of oppressed and suffering, 4, 29–30, 42, 69–70, 99–107, 109–10, 113, 123–24, 129–31, 145, 149, 150, 153, 204, 213–16; progressive, 69, 93–94, 99–104, 106, 110, 113, 123–25, 136, 153, 223
Hitler, Adolf, 32, 33, 36, 141, 156, 200
Holocaust, the, 44, 48, 181, 184–89, 195–205; ethical and political implications of, 30, 182–90, 194–204; political exploitation of, 186–88, 194–204, 239n13, 239n14, 239n17; see also genocide; Israel
human, the, 40, 66–67, 96, 103, 126–28, 147–49, 166, 174–77
 
Ichud organization, 36
Independent Jewish Voices (UK), 117
interdependency, 129, 175–77
Islam, 14, 48, 49
Israel, colonial, military, and state violence of, 1–2, 4, 6–7, 14–21, 24–26, 29–30, 32–37, 45, 49–50, 52, 61, 92–93, 97–98, 101, 116–21, 129, 130, 141–44, 149–50, 152, 178–80, 184, 186–88, 195–200, 203–16, 222–24; criticism of, 1–3, 7, 20, 25–26, 29, 32, 33–36, 76, 116–18, 121, 132, 141, 142, 186–88, 195; as founding of Jewish sovereign state, 7, 14, 18–19, 25–26, 29, 34–36, 76, 110, 118, 121–22, 132, 138, 141–42, 149, 153, 186, 195–97, 210, 211–15; and Holocaust, 25–27, 30, 32, 45, 121, 132, 136, 155, 157–58, 184, 186–88, 194–204; and Jewish demographic advantage, 26, 30, 34, 36, 48, 118, 209–14, 216; see also Jewishness
Israeli Independence Day, 206
 
Jacob (Bible), 47, 58–59
Jakobsen, Janet, 14, 115
Jaspers, Karl, 139, 163
Jerusalem, 51, 62, 139, 211, 219; East Jerusalem, 210; and Eichmann, 140, 152, 157–60, 163–68, 175
Jewishness, 14, 31, 133; Arab origins of (Mizrachim), 14, 28, 30, 48, 118, 139, 198, 211; Ashkenazi, 28, 30, 48, 118, 198, 242n12; and ethical and critical resources, 1–9, 12, 18, 21–22, 27, 43, 46–47, 60–61, 69, 116–17, 138, 149, 214–15; and Europe, 120, 135, 136, 138–41, 143, 149; exclusionary frameworks and exceptionalism of, 2–5, 14, 18, 46–48, 60–61, 99, 113, 119, 135–36, 144, 151–52; German, 134, 135, 139, 140, 144; Israel’s representation of, 2, 3, 14, 20, 42, 45, 47, 114, 117, 136, 202–3; and relationality to the non-Jew, 15, 17, 21, 27–28, 30–33, 37–38, 49, 99, 117, 127, 139, 153, 211; secularism and, 1–2, 4, 5, 14–15, 32, 35–36, 114–15, 134–35, 137–38; Spanish origins of (Sephardim), 14, 30, 48, 118, 139, 198, 211; see also Israel; Zionism
Jewish Voice for Peace, 117
Jews for Justice for Palestinians, 117
J Street, 117
Judaism, 14, 23, 28–31, 35, 44–49, 60, 63–64, 75, 96, 114, 116–117, 120, 124, 135–39, 153, 202, 210; see also Jewishness
judgment, 39–42, 83–84, 86, 95–96, 126–27, 132–33, 152–75, 177–78
justice, 1–3, 5, 18–22, 24, 32–34, 37, 39–44, 50, 55, 68, 69, 73, 76, 81, 84–85, 90, 113, 116–21, 124, 140, 149–50, 207–10, 213, 216–17; and in Eichmann trial, 132, 157–67, 169; and Holocaust, 121, 186–87, 201, 204; and law, 174, 178–80; see also polity
 
Kabbalah, 123
Kaddish, 21
Kafka, Franz, 10, 16, 40, 94–96, 101, 103, 104, 122, 222, 228n12; and Odradek, 96, 101, 104–6, 108
Kant, Immanuel, 43, 126, 140, 141, 153, 168, 176; and Eichmann, 155–57, 177
Kohn, Hans, 25
Korah, 81, 82
Koran, 11
 
Lacan, Jacques, 156
Laplanche, Jean, 10
Laub, Dori, 112
law, 21, 29, 33, 55, 62, 67–68, 77, 143–44, 146, 155–56, 174, 197; as coercive binding of subject, 70–76, 78–80, 82–83, 86–88, 90–91; international, 177–80, 205–7; Israeli, 14, 30, 114; Jewish, 74–75, 114; and judgment, 157–59, 162–63, 168–69, 172, 175–76, 178, 181; positive, 71, 76, 80–82, 85–88, 91, 155, 169; and violence, 69–88, 91–92, 95
Law of Return (Israel), 15, 209–10, 212
Lebanon, 46, 92, 97, 112, 187, 202, 212, 224
Leto (myth of Niobe), 78, 90
Levi, Primo, 20, 25, 112, 181–204, 208; The Drowned and the Saved, 184, 189, 204; and Israel, 181, 186–88, 197, 200–4; Il Manifesto, 202; La Repubblica, 187, 202, 203; Survival in Auschwitz, 184
Levinas, Emmanuel, 6, 9, 10–13, 23, 28, 38–51, 54–68, 87, 225n6, 228n11, 230n9; Autrement qu’être (Otherwise Than Being), 54, 59; Difficult Freedom, 42; on Israel and Zionism, 39, 42–49, 60–61; New Talmudic Readings, 40, 58, 63–64, 66–67; and messianism, 39–43, 48; and persecution, 9, 43–49, 59–63; and substitution, 61–63; see also “the face”
Likud Party, 224; see also Begin; Israel
Lispector, Clarice, 16
Locke, John, 33, 36
Luria, Isaac, 122
Lyotard, Jean-François, 197
 
Madison, James, 148
Magnes, Judah, 36, 120, 145, 242n12
Mahmood, Saba, 14, 115
Marburg school, 140, 153
Marxism, 46, 51, 76, 107, 141
memory, 62, 92, 102, 104–6, 111–13, 123–24, 127, 129–31, 179–202; crystallization of, 184, 188, 190–91, 193–95; and trauma, 112–13, 188–97; see also remembrance
Mendelsohn, Moses, 136
Messiah, 40, 41, 91, 103, 105, 106
messianic, the, 5, 13, 39–43, 48, 69–70, 73, 76–77, 85–96, 99–100, 102–10, 113, 122–23, 129, 140, 153, 226n8, 228n11, 235n22, 239n14; and history of the oppressed, 69, 107–10, 113, 123–24, 129–30; as interruptions of progressive historical time, 40–41, 69, 88–89, 91–96, 103–8, 110, 123–24, 129; and writing, 108–9
Mizrachim, see Jewishness
Montesquieu, 33
Moses, 10, 66, 80; and Egyptian origins, 28, 30–32, 38, 49, 215, 228n2
 
Naqba, 25, 101, 110, 112, 144, 200, 208–9, 221, 241n4
narrative, 25, 101–2, 106–7, 109, 111–13, 118, 122–23, 181–94, 199, 222; and memory, 181, 183–84, 188–94, 197, 199; and refutation of revisionism, 182, 184, 186, 188–90, 193, 194, 195, 200; see also testimony
nation, 5, 6, 18, 21, 31, 50, 69, 107, 111–13, 125, 127, 131, 134–35, 148–49, 163, 168, 205, 224; Jewish, 136–38, 141–42, 149, 211; and memory, 112, 180, 197–200; without nation-state, 137–38, 145–47; Palestinian, 18, 21, 111–12, 205–6, 208; and relation to plurality, 9, 17–18, 24–25, 61–62, 100, 102, 118, 121, 126–27, 137–38, 143, 146, 162–63, 166; and territory, 15, 18, 142, 145; see also belonging; Israel
nationalism, 9, 26, 37, 99, 109, 111, 121, 198–200; critique of, 21–25, 31, 99, 101, 106, 110–12, 117–18, 121, 123–24, 129–31, 135–37, 138, 142–50, 152–53, 179–80, 198, 204, 205, 208–9; decentering of, 22, 50–53, 111, 206–9; and political speech, 7, 34
National Socialism, 29, 102, 141, 152; see also Nazi
nation-state, 101, 111, 168, 200, 205; critique of, 21, 24, 36, 50, 100–1, 118, 120–21, 131, 134–38, 141–50, 152–54, 206, 210; vs. federation, 145–49; and homogeneity, 25, 100, 102; law and, 92, 143–46, 168, 179–80, 232n1; and production of statelessness, 100, 102, 121, 131, 135, 141–44, 152–53, 180, 198
Nazi, 29, 45, 121, 126, 140, 154–56, 165, 176, 186, 189–90, 194–95, 197, 202, 203; camps, 26, 37, 76, 112, 135, 181, 197; Germany, 121, 150, 169, 188; regime, 14–15, 20, 121, 132, 152, 166, 189, 195; see also genocide; Holocaust
New Testament, 16
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 8
1948 (film), 112
Niobe (myth), 78–79, 82, 83, 89–90, 92
norms, 23, 50, 57, 71, 94, 117, 125, 137, 147–48, 151–52, 154–55, 157, 161–64, 166–67, 171–77, 180, 196, 210
 
obligation, see responsibility
occupation, colonial, see Israel
one-state solution, 28, 33, 210, 214, 216
Operation Cast Lead, 1, 97
Other, the, see alterity
 
Palestinian Israeli, 19, 31, 112, 216
Palestine, 5, 23, 25, 31, 32, 39, 62, 69, 97, 99, 100, 120, 134, 146, 178, 201, 205–24; dispossession and Israeli aggression against, 2, 4, 6–7, 14–15, 18–21, 24, 26, 29–30, 33–37, 45–46, 49–50, 101, 110–13, 118–21, 129–30, 138, 142–44, 149–50, 152, 187–88, 95, 197, 202–3, 206–14, 216, 224; and nation, 18, 21, 50, 111–12, 205–6, 208; see also binationalism; diaspora
Pansa, Giampaolo, 187
Paulin, Tom, 195
Pellegrini, Ann, 14, 115
persecution, 43, 116, 126, 157–58, 180, 200, 202–3; and responsibility, 9, 44–49, 59–63
Piterberg, Gabriel, 123
Plato, 82, 86
plurality (and pluralization), 9, 21, 35, 50, 125–28, 136, 138, 146–48, 151–55, 166, 170–71, 205, 215, 221–22, 224; vs. communitarianism, 7, 9, 128; and the ethical, 38, 57–58, 117, 125, 130, 151, 174–75; and judgment, 155, 160–62, 164–69, 172–73, 178; and ontology of, 100, 126; and politics of cohabitation, 9, 24, 28, 100–1, 110, 113, 121, 125–26, 130, 151–54, 172–77, 179–80
poetry, 218–24
polity, 28–39, 71, 131, 143, 147, 149, 201, 213, 216; and alterity, 5, 15, 23–24, 27, 31, 38–39, 49, 99, 131; anticolonial, 4, 7, 19, 24, 50, 215; democratic, 19, 24, 35, 210; and ethics, 26–27, 51, 55–58, 61–63, 68; federalist, 35–36, 119, 142, 145–47; legitimacy of, 2, 19, 34–35, 43, 119, 149–50; nonviolent, 20, 33–34, 39, 50, 57, 63, 93, 207; postnational, 6, 9, 16–18, 23, 31–34, 39, 50–51, 53, 99–101, 110–11, 117–18, 121, 130–31, 137, 143, 145, 149, 152, 179–80, 208–9; post-Zionist, 4, 18, 32–34, 136–37, 215; and principle of grievability, 21; on principles of equality and justice, 1–5, 18, 20–21, 23–25, 33–34, 50, 55, 57, 68, 113, 117–121, 123, 126–27, 131–32, 137–38, 145–49, 169, 180, 201, 207, 216; see also binationalism; diaspora; plurality
precarity, 27, 48, 56–58, 61, 97–98, 143, 151, 174–77, 195, 201, 225n6
Protestantism, 46
 
Raba (Talmud), 66
Rashi, 40, 58
Raz-Krakotzkin, Amnon, 6, 123
refugee, 21, 24–26, 49, 99–101, 129, 135, 150, 153, 207–9, 214–15; Jewish, 25–26, 142, 149, 151; and nation-state, 120–21, 141, 144, 152; Palestinian, 101, 112, 144, 209, 210, 212, 216, 224, 232n3; rights of, 16, 26, 29, 99, 110, 118, 179–80, 206–10, 212, 215–16; see also exile; statelessness
relationality, 5–6, 23–24, 27, 30, 38, 41–48, 55–58, 67–68, 84, 127–30, 148, 153, 170, 216; and Jewishness, 5–7, 117, 181; and responsibility, 43–44, 47–48, 57–63, 84–85, 181; and subject-formation, 6, 9, 12, 38–39, 41, 50, 57, 59–63, 66–67, 98, 127, 129, 155, 173–74; see also alterity; “the face”; Jewishness
religion, 1–9, 11, 21–24, 39, 46–48, 110, 140, 152, 201, 208; and Israel, 14–15, 25, 33–34, 51, 61, 210; in public life and secular discourses, 7–9, 12–18, 32–33, 35, 114–19, 122, 131, 134–35, 137–38
remembrance, 96, 99, 102–13, 123, 130–31, 153, 189–90, 200; politics of, 99, 102–7, 112, 131
responsibility, 9–10, 12, 17–18, 23–24, 27, 39–49, 54, 56, 59–63, 66–67, 83–84, 87, 97, 125, 127, 130, 138, 151, 155–56, 169–73, 177, 181, 185–86, 201; anarchism of, 67–68, 73, 87–88; and coercive law, 73–75, 78–79, 82, 87–88, 90; of the messianic, 41; see also ethical commandment
retribution, see vengeance
return, 6, 13, 17, 25, 37, 42, 50, 111, 122–24, 197, 202; law of, 15, 209–10; right of, 6, 14–15, 187, 206–12, 216
rights, 18, 21, 62, 101, 116, 121, 126–28, 142–49, 158–59, 163, 166, 175, 179–80, 205–16; of belonging, 101, 127, 180, 213; of citizenship, 33–34, 131, 178; human, 21, 136, 142–43, 147–49, 227n22, 232n1, 235–36n29; to land and property, 7, 37, 50, 58, 205, 212–13; Palestinian, 4, 7, 14–15, 18, 21, 30, 120, 206, 208–9, 213, 216; to self-determination, 6, 18, 21, 30; for the stateless, 121, 142, 149–150, 152; to wage public criticism, 99, 116; see also refugee; return
Rogat, Yosal, 154, 158–59; The Eichmann Trial and the Rule of Law, 158
Ronell, Avital, 10
Rose, Jacqueline, 43, 239n14; The Question of Zion, 43
Rosenzweig, Franz, 37, 74–76, 80, 120, 153, 215, 230n4, 231n6; The Star of Redemption 37, 75, 120
 
Sabra and Shatila massacre, 186, 187
Sa’di, Ahmad, 111; Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory, 111
Said, Edward, 6, 16, 26, 27, 28–31, 38, 49–51, 61, 99, 110, 113, 120, 121, 126, 205, 208, 212, 214–16; Freud and the Non-European, 16, 28, 215; Orientalism, 31; see also Darwish
Sartre, 60, 99, 136
Schmitt, Carl, 77, 174
Scholem, Gershom, 51, 69, 73, 75, 76, 94, 153, 229n1, 234n6; and Arendt, 120, 122–23, 132–36, 138, 141, 148–49, 176; Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, 122
Second World War, 25, 101, 120, 142, 152, 187, 204
secularism, 1–2, 4–5, 7–9, 14–18, 31–32, 35–36, 114–15, 129, 134–38, 215, 227n22
self, the: accounts of, 181–82, 188; and alterity, 6, 12, 38–39, 41–42, 60, 130; and anxiety of responsibility, 56–58, 66; and citizenship, 98; and cohabitation, 130; and ethical demand, 9–10, 12, 38, 41–45, 54–62, 66–67, 127, 129–30; and plural sociality, 155, 162, 168–74, 236n29; and religious and cultural traditions, 22; see also relationality
Sephardim, see Jewishness
sephirot, 106, 122
Shabbetai Tzevi movement, 137
Sharon, Ariel, 187, 203
Shoah, see Holocaust
Simon Wiesenthal Center, 62
Socratic dictim, 65
Sodom and Gomorrah, 161–62, 165
Sorel, Georges, 73, 75, 90; Reflections on Violence, 73
sovereignty, 6, 9, 11, 121, 146–50, 153–54, 160–61, 174–79, 205, 232n1; see also Israel
Spanish Inquisition, 207
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 12
statelessness, 21, 26, 50, 100–2, 120–21, 129, 137, 141–47, 149–50, 163, 207, 209–10, 216, 236n29, 237n30; see also nation-state; refugee
state violence, 6, 16, 21, 33, 50, 69–71, 74, 77, 85, 91–93, 101, 149–50; critique of, 1–2, 4–5, 15, 21, 30, 32, 69–70, 74–76, 91, 93, 99, 116–19, 143, 149, 152, 200, 203; see also Israel
suffering, 45–46, 87–88, 91, 111–13, 118, 128–29, 149–50, 185–86, 197–98, 203–4, 215–16; apprehension of, 50, 73, 89, 195; and ethics, 41–44, 49, 59–60, 66, 79, 127, 130; and judgment, 39–42; memory of, 106–107, 123–24, 130–31, 190–91, 194–95; and the messianic, 41–42, 70, 87–91, 113, 124, 228n11
 
Talmud, 11, see also Levinas
Taylor, Charles, 7, 14, 115
Tel Aviv, 34
testimony, 112–13, 161, 183–89, 192–93; see also narrative
Third Reich, 189; see also Nazi
Toqueville, Alexis de, 140
Torah, 67, 229n1
traditions, 1–5, 8–16, 18, 21, 27, 38–39, 43, 45, 47–48, 51, 65, 74, 115, 117, 120, 122–24, 133, 138, 141, 158, 225n8
translation, 7–14, 16–18, 22–23, 29–30, 58, 99, 111, 123, 128–30, 195, 201, 216; in Benjamin, 13, 70, 107–9, 113, 129, 225n8, 226n19
trauma, 26, 44, 111–13, 129, 181–82, 188–205
 
United Nations, 16, 146, 197, 206; United Nations on Palestinian Human Rights, 179
universalization, 18, 22–23, 39, 45–48, 60, 64–67, 119, 131, 140, 150, 179, 186; and particularism, 23, 42–43; and pluralization, 125–28, 175
 
violence, 17, 21, 26, 30, 33–34, 37, 39–40, 42, 49–50, 56–63, 66–67, 69–99, 130, 174; divine, 70–74, 77, 79–92, 96; legal, 16, 21, 68, 69–88, 90–92, 95, 174; and nonviolence, 30, 33, 50, 57–61, 63, 66, 71, 75–77, 79–81, 84, 90; and self-defense, 26, 29, 47–48, 58, 84, 92–93, 97–98, 119, 145, 194, 196, 200; see also Israel; state violence
vengeance, 39, 43–44, 46–47, 61, 74–75, 78, 82, 91–96, 124, 158–60, 162–67
vulnerability, see precarity
 
Warner, Michael, 115
West Bank, 4, 30, 37, 211, 216, 224
Westphalia, 100; treaty, 232n1
White, Hayden, 181, 182–84, 188–93, 203
White Paper (1939), 142, 235n28
Wiesel, Elie, 189, 197
Winnicott, Donald, 6
Witnessing, see testimony
 
Zertal, Idith, 25, 195–97, 240n17
Zionism, 14–15, 19–21, 24–25, 29–30, 32, 36–37, 39, 42–43, 45, 49, 69, 76, 99, 113–51, 179, 195, 212–13, 216, 223; and anti- or non-Zionism, 2, 19–20, 27, 35–36, 45, 134, 136, 210; cultural, 18–19, 36–37, 50, 120, 137; and Jewishness, 3–4, 20, 26–27, 48, 114, 117, 210, 215; and land claims, 15, 19; oppositions to 2–3, 18, 20, 29, 32–33, 35, 75, 114, 116, 120, 123, 130, 134–37, 140, 196, 205, 215; political, 2–4, 7, 18–19, 22, 26, 29, 36–37, 43, 101, 118, 120, 123–24, 130, 152–53, 198; “post-,” 32, 33, 35; in public life, 114–17; spiritual, 36, 120; see also Israel
Zochrot, 206, 241n4