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Author Schuldiner, Michael Joseph.

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

Imprint Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  940.531814 Sch81c 2011    ---  Available
Description xxx, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Modern Jewish history
Modern Jewish history (Lubbock, Tex.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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? -- Conclusion -- German American and Jewish American views of the Holocaust.
Summary "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 by publisher.
Subject 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.
ISBN 9780896726987 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0896726983 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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