Bird, S; (2018) Nazis disguised as Jews and Israel's pursuit of justice: the Eichmann trial and the kapo trials in Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth and Emanuel Litvinoff's Falls the Shadow. Holocaust Studies , 24 (4) pp. 466-487. 10.1080/17504902.2018.1428783.

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The preposterous figure of the Nazi disguised as a Jew destabilises boundaries between perpetrator and victim, a blurring of identity that is particularly provocative in relation to the Eichmann trial and the Israeli kapo trials of the 1950s and early 1960s. Robert Shaw’s The Man in the Glass Booth (1967) responds to the Eichmann trial and Hannah Arendt’s analysis of the perpetrator, ultimately reinforcing the image of the monstrous Nazi. Emanuel Litvinoff’s Falls the Shadow (1983), takes the figure as a starting point for a complex exploration of Jewish collaboration and culpability, in relation to the Israeli kapo trials of the 1950s and Israel’s relationship to justice following the Sabra and Shatila massacres.

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