By Alvin H. Rosenfeld
ISBN-10: 0253011973
ISBN-13: 9780253011978
ISBN-10: 0253356431
ISBN-13: 9780253356437
In this provocative paintings, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, movies, tv courses, museums, and public commemorations regarding the Holocaust has, perversely, led to a diminution of its that means and a denigration of its reminiscence. Investigating a variety of occasions and cultural phenomena, comparable to Ronald Reagan's 1985 stopover at to the German cemetery at Bitburg, the distortions of Anne Frank's tale, and the ways that the Holocaust has been depicted via such artists and filmmakers as Judy Chicago and Steven Spielberg, Rosenfeld charts the cultural forces that experience minimized the Holocaust in renowned perceptions. He contrasts those with sobering representations by means of Holocaust witnesses comparable to Jean Améry, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Imre Kertész. The publication concludes with a strong caution concerning the attainable outcomes of "the finish of the Holocaust" in public consciousness.
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