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Holocaust : an American understanding / Deborah E. Lipstadt.

Author/creator Lipstadt, Deborah E. author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Copyright Notice ©2016
Descriptionxii, 204 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Key words in Jewish studies ; VII
Key words in Jewish studies ; v. 7. ^A1129850
Contents 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, 1947-1962 -- 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 -- Faith in the Wake of Auschwitz: Shifting Theologies -- 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 -- In a New Key -- Counting the Victims, Skewing the Numbers -- 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 Proceed
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2015035675
ISBN9780813564777 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Stock numberMidwest (standing order)

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