Contesting histories : German and Jewish Americans and the legacy of the Holocaust / Michael Schuldiner.

"A history of Holocaust understanding (and misunderstanding) in German- and Jewish-American communities. Focusing on both past and recent debates in academia, Schuldiner provides expansive historical context for understanding the Holocaust's reception and place in American historiography"--Provided...

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Main Author: Schuldiner, Michael Joseph
Language:English
Published: Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Series:Modern Jewish history.
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
Public opinion > Germany.
Public opinion > United States.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion, German.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion, American.
Jews > United States > Attitudes.
Physical Description:xxx, 298 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Holocaust debates: from main street to academia
  • Holocaust uniqueness and American retribution
  • Interventionism versus isolationism or Jewish Americans versus German Americans?
  • The Holocaust "debates" of the 1930s and 1940s
  • German ethnics and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum question
  • The battle of Bitburg
  • Browning and Goldhagen: man and superman, ordinary Germans or ordinary men?
  • German American and Jewish American views of the Holocaust.