The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman G. Finkelstein |
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In the first decades following World War II, Americans rarely discussed the Holocaust. Now, remembering the Holocaust has become a fundamental part of Jewish identity; gentiles, too, view the Holocaust as a touchstone of moral solemnity. In The Holocaust and Collective Memory, Peter Novick asks why, and his answers are both sensible and shocking. He explains the immediate post-war silence about the Holocaust by reviewing the basics of cold war politics: just after the liberation of the concentration camps, Americans were called upon to sympathise with "gallant Berliners" who resisted the Soviets and built a wall against Communism--an "enormous shift from one set of alignments to another", Novick notes. Novick then leads readers through the series of events that brought the Holocaust to the forefront of American consciousness--the trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Six-Day War, the Carter administration's Israel policy, and the construction of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.
In the first decades following World War II, Americans rarely discussed the Holocaust. Now, remembering the Holocaust has become a fundamental part of Jewish identity; gentiles, too, view the Holocaust as a touchstone of moral solemnity. In The Holocaust and Collective Memory, Peter Novick asks why, and his answers are both sensible and shocking. He explains the immediate post-war silence about the Holocaust by reviewing the basics of cold war politics: just after the liberation of the concentration camps, Americans were called upon to sympathise with "gallant Berliners" who resisted the Soviets and built a wall against Communism--an "enormous shift from one set of alignments to another", Novick notes. Novick then leads readers through the series of events that brought the Holocaust to the forefront of American consciousness--the trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Six-Day War, the Carter administration's Israel policy, and the construction of the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.
Among Novick's most controversial ideas is his assertion that American Jews spoke softly of the Holocaust at first because they didn't want to be seen as victims; later, Jews decided that victim status would work in their best political interest. Or, as Novick puts it, "Jews were intent on permanent possession of the gold medal in the Victimization Olympics". The Holocaust and Collective Memory is as carefully researched and argued as it is polemical and probing. Novick does not suffer Holocaust deniers lightly, and he is empathic toward victims and survivors, but he has no tolerance for false sentiment. One wishes that more people would ask, as Novick does, what kind of a country would spend millions of dollars on a museum honouring European Jewish Holocaust victims instead of a monument to its own shameful history of black slavery. --Michael Joseph Gross
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'It should be required reading for all those who believe that the memorialising of the Holocaust is because its memory is only now surfacing amongst the survivors' IRISH TIMES 'Eloquently angry, at times bitterly funny, but scrupulously researched book' SCOTSMAN 'In this powerful and provocative book, Peter Novick offers a fascinating analysis of the shifting ways in which the Holocaust has been perceived by the American-Jewish world. It deserves the widest possible readership' JEWISH CHRONICLE
The Holocaust Jews are gold-medal winners in America's 'Victimization Olympics.' And American gentiles have become their cheerleading supporters. But considering the years of global silence which followed the Holocaust, why has the US come to memorialize with substantial government funding, a Nazi atrocity perpetuated on foreign soil? Novick's rapier questioning cuts through years of American history to find out. His encyclopaedic answers (the Holocaust's uniqueness, political gain, gentile debt, moral obligation, etc) are controversial, compassionate and always erudite. Novick's unbiased book is a lifejacket in the overflowing canon of Holocaust literature. (Kirkus UK)
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