| Description |
1 online resource |
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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 Améry : the anguish of the witness -- Primo Levi : the survivor as victim -- Surviving survival : Elie Wiesel and Imre Kertész -- The end of the Holocaust -- A "second Holocaust"? |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 -- Influence
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Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 fast |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
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Collective memory -- United States
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Popular culture -- United States.
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HISTORY -- Holocaust.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish.
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Collective memory
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Historiography
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Popular culture
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0253000920 |
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9780253000927 |
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