The Holocaust In American Life
Title | The Holocaust In American Life PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Novick |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2000-09-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0547349610 |
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?
The Holocaust in American Life
Title | The Holocaust in American Life PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Novick |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780618082322 |
An award-winning history scholar explores the impact of the Holocaust in American political and cultural life, examining its role as a moral reference point for all Americans and the ways in which Jews have used it to define a distinctive identity for themselves. Tour.
The Holocaust in American Life
Title | The Holocaust in American Life PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Novick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
ISBN |
The Holocaust and Collective Memory
Title | The Holocaust and Collective Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Novick |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
ISBN | 9780747552550 |
In a book which continues to provide heated debate, Novick asks whether defining Jewishness in terms of victimhood alone does not hand Hitler a posthumous victory, and whether claiming uniqueness for the Holocaust does not diminish atrocities like Biafra, Rwanda or Kosovo.
Americans and the Holocaust
Title | Americans and the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Greene |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2021-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1978821689 |
This edited collection of more than one hundred primary sources from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s--including newspaper and magazine articles, popular culture materials, and government records--reveals how Americans debated their responsibility to respond to Nazism. It includes valuable resources for students and historians seeking to shed light on this dark era in world history.
America and the Survivors of the Holocaust
Title | America and the Survivors of the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Dinnerstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231041768 |
This study of American policies towards the European Jews surviving the holocaust analyzes displaced persons legislation enacted after the war and examines the role of American Jews in countering anti-Semitism
Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
Title | Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Mintz |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2012-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 029580369X |
The Holocaust took place far from the United States and involved few Americans, yet rather than receding, this event has assumed a greater significance in the American consciousness with the passage of time. As a window into the process whereby the Holocaust has been appropriated in American culture, Hollywood movies are particularly luminous. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines reactions to three films: Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Pawnbroker (1965), and Schindler�s List (1992), and considers what those reactions reveal about the place of the Holocaust in the American mind, and how those films have shaped the popular perception of the Holocaust. It also considers the difference in the reception of the two earlier films when they first appeared in the 1960s and retrospective evaluations of them from closer to our own times. Alan Mintz also addresses the question of how Americans will shape the memory of the Holocaust in the future, concluding with observations on the possibilities and limitations of what is emerging as the major resource for the shaping of Holocaust memory�videotaped survivor testimony. Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America examines some of the influences behind the broad and deep changes in American consciousness and the social forces that permitted the Holocaust to move from the margins to the center of American discourse.