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The Holocaust in American Life Paperback - 2000
by Peter Novick
This landmark work explores in detail the decisions made in the decades following World War II that moved discussion of the Holocaust to the center of American life.
Summary
Prize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long -- how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American Jews, not wanting to be thought of as victims, avoided the subject. He explores in absorbing detail the decisions that later moved the Holocaust to the center of American life: Jewish leaders invoking its memory to muster support for Israel and to come out on top in a sordid competition over what group had suffered most; politicians using it to score points with Jewish voters. With insight and sensitivity, Novick raises searching questions about these developments. Have American Jews, by making the Holocaust the emblematic Jewish experience, given Hitler a posthumous victory, tacitly endorsing his definition of Jews as despised pariahs? Does the Holocaust really teach useful lessons and sensitize us to atrocities, or, by making the Holocaust the measure, does it make lesser crimes seem "not so bad"? What are we to make of the fact that while Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars for museums recording a European crime, there is no museum of American slavery?
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- Title The Holocaust in American Life
- Author Peter Novick
- Binding Paperback
- Edition None
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston
- Date 2000-09-20
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618082322 / 0618082328
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Topical: Holocaust
- Library of Congress subjects Public opinion - United States, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99020074
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.531
Media reviews
"...has already established itself as one of the most controversial and thought-provoking discussions of the Holocaust and Jewish identity to date." --JEWISH TRANSCRIPT
"The history book of the year."
The Nation
"The history book of the year."
The Nation
Citations
- New York Times, 12/03/2000, Page 109
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