End of the Holocaust

Name: End of the Holocaust
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ISBN: 9780253011978

ISBN-10: 0253011973

ISBN-13: 9780253011978

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alvin H. Rosenfeld

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In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of its memory. Investigating a wide range of events and cultural phenomena, such as Ronald Reagan's 1985 visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg, the distortions of Anne Frank's story, and the ways in which the Holocaust has been depicted by such artists and filmmakers as Judy Chicago and Steven Spielberg, Rosenfeld charts the cultural forces that have minimized the Holocaust in popular perceptions. He contrasts these with sobering…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/27/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Alvin H. Rosenfeld holds the Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and is Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington. He is author of A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature (1980) and Imagining Hitler (1985) and editor of Thinking about the Holocaust: After Half a Century (1997), all published by Indiana University Press.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Popular Culture and the Politics of Memory



The Rhetoric of Victimization



The Americanization of the Holocaust



Anne Frank: The Posthumous Years



The Anne Frank We Remember/The Anne Frank We Forget



Jean Amï¿½ry: The Anguish of the Witness



Primo Levi: The Survivor as Victim



Surviving Survival: Elie Wiesel and Imre Kertï¿½sz



The End of the Holocaust


Epilogue: A "Second Holocaust"?


Notes


Index