Holocaust : an American understanding / Deborah E. Lipstadt.
Material type: TextSeries: Key words in Jewish studiesPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813564784
- 0813564786
- 9780813573694
- 0813573696
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Foreign public opinion, American
- Public opinion -- United States
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Western
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- Historiography
- Public opinion
- Public opinion, American
- United States
- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- 940.53/18 23
- D804.45.U55 L57 2016eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. 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; 2. 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 ProtestersFrom 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; 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 AttacksCompetitive Genocides? The Holocaust versus All Others; Scaring the People. On How Not to Proceed; Notes; Index; About the Author.
In Holocaust: An American Understanding, Deborah E. Lipstadt reveals how since the end of the war a broad array of Americans have tried to make sense of an inexplicable disaster, and how they came to use the Holocaust as a lens to interpret their own history. Drawing upon extensive research on politics, popular culture, student protests, religious debates and Zionist ideologies, Lipstadt weaves a powerful narrative that ranges from the civil rights movement and Vietnam, to the Rwandan genocide and the bombing of Kosovo.
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