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Genocide and the Burden of History

Genocide and the Burden of History

Update: 2025-08-12
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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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Genocide and the Burden of History

Genocide and the Burden of History

Shalom Hartman Institute