The Holocaust's ghost : writings on art, politics, law, and education / F.C. DeCoste, Bernard Schwartz, editors.

Includes papers from the conference on Holocaust: art/politics/law, held at the University of Alta., Oct. 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Art and politics. Holocaust's life as a ghost / Zygmunt Bauman -- Wartime lies: securing the Holocaust in law and literature / Lawrence Douglas -- Shattered word: writing of the fragment and Holocaust testimony / Dorota Glowacka -- Charlotte Salmon's inward-turning literature / Mary Felstiner -- Metapolitics of power and conflict / Harold Kaplan -- Jewish musicians in the Third Reich: a tale of tragedy / Michael H. Kater -- Culture under duress: art and the Holocaust / Sybil H. Milton -- Choices artists make / Sid Chafetz -- Art after Auschwitz: Jozef Szajna's "Theatre of Panic" / Stephen C. Feinstein -- Persistence of Holocaust imagery in American art / Matthew Baigell -- Poems from Singing behind the barbed wire (introduced by Matthew Lippman) / Henryka and Alona Karmel -- Architecture and the destruction of the European Jews / Paul B. Jaskot -- Memory and counter-memory: toward a social aesthetics of Holocaust memorials / James E. Young -- Roma Holocaust / David M. Crowe -- Denunciations and Nazi Germany / Robert Gellately -- Holocaust and public discourse / Theodore Y. Blumoff -- Anti-semitism and anti-black racism: Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa / Heribert Adam -- Part II. Law and education. Bar in the Third Reich: anti-semitism and the decline of liberal advocacy / Udo Reifner -- German law and German crimes in the Nazi era / Henry Friedlander -- Law, lawyers and legality in the Third Reich: the perversion of principle and professionalism / Matthew Lippman -- Belzberg lecture: honouring memory, doing justice: Holocaust denial, hate propaganda and Canadian law / Bruce P. Elman -- Anti-semitism and Holocaust denial in the academy: a tort remedy / Geri J. Yonover -- Critical need to teach the Holocaust in a historically accurate and pedagogically sound manner / Samuel Totten -- Legitimizing the final selection: race in the school curriculum of the Third Reich / Gregory Wegner -- Treaties and interpretive nitpicking under Vichy racial statutes / Richard Weisberg -- Toward a distinctive pedagogy for Holocaust education / Stephen R. Haynes -- Herder and the Holocaust: a debate about difference and determinism in the context of contemporary law / Vivian Grosswald Curran -- Constructing memory with legal blueprints / Mark Osiel -- German lawyers and the state in the Weimar Republic / Kenneth F. Ledford -- Did legal positivism render German jurists defenceless during the Third Reich? / Walter Ott and Franziska Buob -- Holocaust and hope: Holocaust education in the context of anti-racist education in Canada / Karen R. Mock -- Countering hate on the Internet: recommendations for action / David Matas -- Education for social responsibility: the Holocaust, human rights and classroom practice / William R. Fernekes -- Teaching the Holocaust in a multiracial, multicultural urban environment / Carole Ann Reed and Myra Novogrodsky -- Cultural captivity and the need for a liberating education / Hans-Dittmar Mündel.