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The Holocaust in American Life

Peter Novick

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#3349 of 3,809 books · #1052 in History

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (1999).

Peter Novick explores in absorbing detail the decisions that moved the Holocaust to the center of American life. He illuminates how Jewish leaders invoked its memory to muster support for Israel, and how politicians in turn used it to score points with Jewish voters. With insight and sensitivity, Novick raises searching questions about these developments, their meaning, and their consequences. 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"? 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? What are we to make of the fact that while Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars for museums recording a European crime, while comparatively little is done to memorialize American slavery?

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780547349619
Genre
History
Topics
Holocaust memoryAmerican Jewish identityCollective memory and politics

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