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The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses (243pp.-pdf)

(Institute for Global Jewish Affairs-ADL) Manfred Gerstenfeld - The Holocaust is likely to continue to play an important role as the metaphor of absolute evil. Over the past several decades, awareness of the Holocaust in the Western world has increased greatly. The broad superficial familiarity with the subject, however, also makes it prone to a multitude of distortions. Its history and terminology are abused for a variety of purposes, including using it as a tool against one's enemies and, in particular, Jews and Israel. Denial of the Holocaust is the best-known distortion of its memory. Other categories include Holocaust justification, deflection, whitewashing, de-Judaization, equivalence, inversion, and trivialization, as well as obliterating Holocaust memory. This book analyzes the categories of distortion and the responses to them.
2011-01-21 08:33:02
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