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Title Is the Holocaust unique? : perspectives on comparative genocide / edited and with an introduction by Alan S. Rosenbaum ; with a foreword by Israel W. Charny
Edition 3rd ed
Published Boulder, CO : Westview Press ; Philadelphia, PA : Perseus Books Group [distributor], ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 359 pages)
Contents Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the First Edition; Introduction to the Second Edition; Introduction to the Third Edition; 1 The Ethics of Uniqueness; 2 Religion and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust; 3 From the Holocaust: Some Legal and Moral Implications; 4 The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: The Historical Dimension; 5 Responses to the Porrajmos: The Romani Holocaust; 6 The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis; 7 The Armenian Genocide as Precursor and Prototype of Twentieth-Century Genocide
Summary In this highly controversial volume, distinguished scholars address the fundamental question of whether the Holocaust is unique when compared to well-known and possibly analogous instances of genocide and mass death
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
Genocide.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Genocide
Historiography
Judenvernichtung
Geschichtsschreibung
Völkermord
Vergleich
Judenvernichtung.
Völkermord.
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenbaum, Alan S.
ISBN 9780786727452
0786727454
128309438X
9781283094382
9780429963681
0429963688