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

This article identifies the Nazi disguised as a Jew as a recurring figure in fiction, who destabilizes boundaries between perpetrator and victim. This blurring of identity is particularly provocative in relation to the Eichmann Trial and the Israeli Kapo Trials of the 1950s. Robert Shaw's The man in the glass booth (1967) responds to the Eichmann Trial and Arendt's subsequent analysis, ultimately reinforcing the image of the monstrous Nazi. Written following the Sabra and Shatila massacres, and reflecting on the Kapo Trials, Emanuel Litvinoff's Falls the shadow (1983) offers a complex exploration of Jewish culpability and Israel's relation to justice.