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Holocaust : An American Understanding /
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 polit...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.