Holocaust and Collective Memory
by Peter Novick (9780747552550)

Holocaust and Collective Memory (Book)

Peter Novick
Release Date: 01 May 2001
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780747552550
ISBN-10: 074755255X

How and when did the Holocaust come to loom so large in post-war Jewish and American and international life? Peter Novick's controversial new book sets out to answer this question. In the first decades after World War II, the Holocaust was little talked about, but after the Six-Day War (1967) it began to assume central importance as a defining factor of Jewishness. With the release of Claude Lanzmann's documentary Shoah (1985), it had become the moral issue of the twentieth century.
In a book which continues to provoke 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.

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