{"product_id":"holocaust-an-american-understanding-paperback-softback-9780813564760","title":"Holocaust; An American Understanding (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813564760","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHolocaust\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn American Understanding\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDeborah E. Lipstadt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813564760\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 July 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e220 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Lipstadt's \u003ci\u003eHolocaust: An American Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e fulfills its editors' request for a volume that 'decipher[s]' a key word in Jewish Studies and underscores 'the points of intersection between academic disciplines and wider spheres of culture.' And to my mind, it also succeeds as a mini-intellectual and social biography of a scholar and Jewish advocate who has become one of the most remarkable Jewish women of our time.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Antisemitism Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Drawing on primary and secondary sources as well as interviews, Lipstadt’s book details the manner in which the\u003ci\u003e Shoah \u003c\/i\u003emoved from a little-understood, horrific casualty of WW II to its present impact on American culture, politics, and the US Jewish community ... Lipstadt’s exceptional book deserves to be in libraries as well as in colleges and universities that offer courses on the Holocaust and its aftermath ... Summing up: Essential. All levels\/libraries.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Deborah Lipstadt always writes smoothly and reasons vigorously. This book is lucid, accessible, and courageous - I couldn't put it down.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Peter Hayes (Professor of History and German, Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor, Nort) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eHolocaust\u003c\/i\u003e] is very much an account of an American discourse on the Holocaust, and one in which Jewish voices take centre stage. For those on Jewish studies programmes in US universities, it will serve as a helpful introduction to the main trends since 1945.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Times Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Offer[s] yet another revealing avenue into American understandings of the Holocaust.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of American History) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/18\/opinions\/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-holocaust-denial-lipstadt-opinion\/index.html\"'\u003e\"Zuckerberg's comments give Holocaust deniers an opening\" by Deborah Lipstadt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (CNN.com)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eImmediately after World War II, there was little discussion of the Holocaust, but today the word has grown into a potent political and moral symbol, recognized by all.  In \u003ci\u003eHolocaust: An American Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e, renowned historian Deborah E. Lipstadt explores this striking evolution in Holocaust consciousness, revealing how a broad array of Americans-from students in middle schools to presidents of the United States-tried to make sense of this inexplicable disaster, and how they came to use the Holocaust as a lens to interpret their own history.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLipstadt weaves a powerful narrative that touches on events as varied as the civil rights movement, Vietnam, Stonewall, and the women’s movement, as well as controversies over Bitburg, the Rwandan genocide, and the bombing of Kosovo. Drawing upon extensive research on politics, popular culture, student protests, religious debates and various strains of Zionist ideologies, Lipstadt traces how the Holocaust became integral to the fabric of American life. Even popular culture, including such films as \u003ci\u003eDr. Strangelove\u003c\/i\u003e and such books as John Hershey’s \u003ci\u003eThe Wall\u003c\/i\u003e, was influenced by and in turn influenced thinking about the Holocaust. Equally important, the book shows how Americans used the Holocaust to make sense of what was happening in the United States. Many Americans saw the civil rights movement in light of Nazi oppression, for example, while others feared that American soldiers in Vietnam were destroying a people identified by the government as the enemy.   \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLipstadt demonstrates that the Holocaust became not just a tragedy to be understood but also a tool for interpreting America and its place in the world. Ultimately \u003ci\u003eHolocaust: An American Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e tells us as much about America in the years since the end of World War II as it does about the Holocaust itself.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eForeword by Andrew Bush, Deborah Dash Moore, and MacDonald Moore\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1        Terms of Debate \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Finding a Name to Define a Horror\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Laying the Foundation: The Visionary Role of Philip Friedman\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Creating a Field of Study: Raul Hilberg\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Survivors in America: An Uncomfortable Encounter\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           “\u003cbr\u003eHolocaust”\u003cbr\u003e in American Popular Culture, 1947–\u003cbr\u003e1962\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2        State of the Question\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           The Eichmann Trial and the Arendt Debate\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           “\u003cbr\u003eHolocaust”\u003cbr\u003e: Shedding Light on America’\u003cbr\u003es Shortcomings\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           A Post-Holocaust Protest Generation Creates Its Memories\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           The Baby Boom Protesters\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           From the Mideast to Moscow: Holocaust Redux? \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Survivors: From DPs to Witnesses\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Severed Alliances\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           The Holocaust and the Small Screen\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           America and the Holocaust: Playing the Blame Game\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           The White House: Whose Holocaust?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           The Kremlin versus Wiesel: Identifying the Victims \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3        In a New Key\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Skewing the Numbers: Counting the Victims\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           An Obsession with the Holocaust? A Jewish Critique\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           The Bitburg Affair: The “\u003cbr\u003eWatergate of Symbolism”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Memory Booms as the World Forgets\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Assaults on the Holocaust: Normalization, Denial, and Trivialization\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           The Uniqueness Battle\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Impassioned Attacks\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Competitive Genocides? The Holocaust versus All Others\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e           Scaring the People: On How Not to Proceed\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739994550552,"sku":"9780813564760","price":24.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/holocaust-an-american-understanding-paperback-softback-9780813564760","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}