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The Holocaust in American Life

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The Holocaust in American Life

by Novick, Peter

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ISBN 10
0395840090
ISBN 13
9780395840092
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0395840090 . 375 pp. Index. Notes. Spine, corners bumped. Jacket price-clipped, has some edgewear. A study of how the Holocaust came to loom large in American life. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Synopsis

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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Bookseller
Riverwash Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Holocaust in American Life
Author
Novick, Peter
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0395840090
ISBN 13
9780395840092
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1999
Keywords
0395840090, Holocaust, Historiography, PUBLIC Opinion, JEWS, United States

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