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Trade Review"Lipstadt's
Holocaust: An American Understanding fulfills its editors' request for a volume that 'decipher[s]' a key word in Jewish Studies and underscores 'the points of intersection between academic disciplines and wider spheres of culture.' And to my mind, it also succeeds as a mini-intellectual and social biography of a scholar and Jewish advocate who has become one of the most remarkable Jewish women of our time." * Antisemitism Studies *
"Drawing on primary and secondary sources as well as interviews, Lipstadt’s book details the manner in which the
Shoah moved from a little-understood, horrific casualty of WW II to its present impact on American culture, politics, and the US Jewish community ... Lipstadt’s exceptional book deserves to be in libraries as well as in colleges and universities that offer courses on the Holocaust and its aftermath ... Summing up: Essential. All levels/libraries." * Choice *
"Deborah Lipstadt always writes smoothly and reasons vigorously. This book is lucid, accessible, and courageous - I couldn't put it down." -- Peter Hayes * Professor of History and German, Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor, Nort *
"[
Holocaust] is very much an account of an American discourse on the Holocaust, and one in which Jewish voices take centre stage. For those on Jewish studies programmes in US universities, it will serve as a helpful introduction to the main trends since 1945." * Times Higher Education *
"Offer[s] yet another revealing avenue into American understandings of the Holocaust." * Journal of American History *
"Zuckerberg's comments give Holocaust deniers an opening" by Deborah Lipstadt * CNN.com *
Table of ContentsForeword by Andrew Bush, Deborah Dash Moore, and MacDonald MooreAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Terms of Debate Finding a Name to Define a Horror Laying the Foundation: The Visionary Role of Philip Friedman Creating a Field of Study: Raul Hilberg Survivors in America: An Uncomfortable Encounter “Holocaust” in American Popular Culture, 1947–19622 State of the Question The Eichmann Trial and the Arendt Debate “Holocaust”: Shedding Light on America’s Shortcomings A Post-Holocaust Protest Generation Creates Its Memories The Baby Boom Protesters From the Mideast to Moscow: Holocaust Redux? Survivors: From DPs to Witnesses Severed Alliances The Holocaust and the Small Screen America and the Holocaust: Playing the Blame Game The White House: Whose Holocaust? The Kremlin versus Wiesel: Identifying the Victims 3 In a New Key Skewing the Numbers: Counting the Victims An Obsession with the Holocaust? A Jewish Critique The Bitburg Affair: The “Watergate of Symbolism” Memory Booms as the World Forgets Assaults on the Holocaust: Normalization, Denial, and Trivialization The Uniqueness Battle Impassioned Attacks Competitive Genocides? The Holocaust versus All Others Scaring the People: On How Not to ProceedNotesIndex
