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Contemporary Responses to the Holocaust (Chap. 7 "The State of Holocaust Negation") » Read Now
by Konrad Kwiet, Jurgen Matthaus. 288 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Entire Library

The murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust is a crime that has had a lasting and massive impact on our time. Despite the immense, ever-increasing body of Holocaust literature and representation, no single interpretation can provide definitive answers. Shaped by different historical...
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The murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust is a crime that has had a lasting and massive impact on our time. Despite the immense, ever-increasing body of Holocaust literature and representation, no single interpretation can provide definitive answers. Shaped by different historical experiences, political and national interests, our approximations of the Holocaust remain elusive. Holocaust responses--past, present, and future--reflect our changing understanding of history and the shifting landscapes of memory. This book takes stock of the attempts within and across nations to come to terms with the murders.
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Lying about Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial » Read Now
by Richard J. Evans. 308 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way...
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In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief advisor for the defense, uses this pivotal trial as a lens for exploring a range of difficult questions about the nature of the historian's enterprise. For instance, don't all historians in the end bring a subjective agenda to bear on their reading of the evidence? Is it possible that Irving lost his case not because of his biased history but because his agenda was unacceptable? The central issue in the trial -- as for Evans in this book -- was not the past itself, but the way in which historians study the past. In a series of short, sharp chapters, Richard Evans sets David Irving's methods alongside the historical record in orderto illuminate the difference between responsible and irresponsible history. The result is a cogent and deeply informed study in the nature of historical interpretation.
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Holocaust Denial Debates: The Symbolic Significance of Irving v. Penguin & Lipstadt, in Communication Studies » Read Now
by Marouf Hasian Jr. 22 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Holocaust denial debates: the symbolic significance...States when he argued in 1996 that "Holocaust denial" and "anti-Semitic language" are forms...this type of hate...
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Forgetting the Fuhrer: The Recent History of the Holocaust Denial Movement in Germany, in The Australian Journal of Politics and History » Read Now
by Anthony Long. 13 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Fuhrer: the recent history of the Holocaust denial movement in Germany. by Anthony Long Holocaust denial has a long history in Germany...style still forms the basis of...
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General Semantics and Holocaust Denial, in ETC.: A Review of General Semantics » Read Now
by Andrew E. Mathis. 10 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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The Banality of Irving, in The American Prospect » Read Now
by Mark Greif. 6 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...to a court of appeal. Thats why Holocaust denial is so intolerable to liberal cultures...Review, and moved toward denying the Holocaust as a whole. Others remember...
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Holocaust on Trial: A Controversial British Writer, David Irving, Has Instigated a Libel Suit against an American Historian (For Denying the Holocaust), in The Atlantic Monthly » Read Now
by D. D. Guttenplan. 19 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial" "Familiar with historical evidence...arguments, she says, equals Holocaust denial--a position that in her view...significant...
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The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide » Read Now
by Alain Finkielkraut, Mary Byrd Kelly. 152 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Entire Library

The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust -- and on Holocaust denial -- from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe.
The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent...
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The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust -- and on Holocaust denial -- from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe.
The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent "revisionist" attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact. Finkielkraut's central topic is the impulse toward "negation" of the Nazi horrors: the arguments made by many people, of varying political orientations, that "the gas chambers are a hoax or, in any case, an unverifiable rumor". In addition, Finkielkraut looks at other instances of twentieth-century mass murder and at arguments made by contemporary politicians and intellectuals that similarly deny the full extent of these other atrocities. An original, fearless book, The Future of a Negation is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.
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Canadian Civil Liberties, Holocaust Denial, and the Zundel Trials, in Communications and the Law » Read Now
by Marouf A. Hasian Jr. 14 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Canadian civil liberties, Holocaust denial, and the Zundel trials...and an exponential growth in Holocaust-denial literature.(3) Our dominant...EXPRESSION IN INTERNATIONAL...
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Critical Surfing: Holocaust Denial and Credibility on the Web, in College Teaching » Read Now
by Shane Borrowman. 4 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...Critical Surfing: Holocaust denial and credibility on the Web...medium. Hate speech in general--and Holocaust denial in particular--is reaching far...ever able to do in the...
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Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification (Chap. 8 "'Revisionism' in Germany and Austria") » Read Now
by Hermann Kurthen, Werner Bergmann, Rainer Erb. 318 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Since unification, Germany has experienced profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hate crime, antisemitic incidents, and racist violence. This book presents the most recent research conducted by a team of American and German experts in political science, sociology, mass...
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Since unification, Germany has experienced profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hate crime, antisemitic incidents, and racist violence. This book presents the most recent research conducted by a team of American and German experts in political science, sociology, mass communication, and history. They analyze the degrees of antisemitism, xenophobia, remembrance, and Holocaust knowledge in German public opinion; the groups and organizations that propagate such prejudice and hate; and the German, American, and Jewish perceptions of, and reactions to, these phenomena.
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Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France (Chap. 7 "Denying the Holocaust in France: The Past and Present of an Illusion") » Read Now
by Richard J. Golsan. 234 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome" -- the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life -- is that it has been extremely difficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails...
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One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome" -- the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life -- is that it has been extremely difficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails, fascinate and even obsess the French, inflecting not only discussions of the past but of the present as well?
In Vichy's Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy's curious persistence in France's national consciousness. He argues that each of these episodes, events, and scandals, constitutes a crossroads where history and "counterhistory" -- different or competing versions of the past -- encounter one another, often with explosive and even destructive consequences.
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The Jewish Wars: Reflections by One of the Belligerents (Chap. 16 "Noam Chomsky and Holocaust Denial") » Read Now
by Edward Alexander. 206 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Very much a warrior flourishing words and ideology as his weapons, Edward Alexander launches a counterattack in the war of ideas against Zionism. These essays begin with a dissection of the intifada at the end of 1987 and deal with people and events through 1994, when Israel began to withdraw from...
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Very much a warrior flourishing words and ideology as his weapons, Edward Alexander launches a counterattack in the war of ideas against Zionism. These essays begin with a dissection of the intifada at the end of 1987 and deal with people and events through 1994, when Israel began to withdraw from the disputed territories. Ineffective militarily, Edward Alexander notes, the intifada proved a potent propaganda tool: "The spectacle of young Palestinian Arabs (at least in early the early stages of the uprising, before the violence became highly organized) facing Israeli soldiers won for the Arabs precisely the victory they had sought: it swung liberal, including (if not especially) Jewish liberal, sympathy decisively to the side of the Arabs and against Israel". Alexander's book is the first to subject to withering criticism the "body of ideas that lured Israel into the quagmire called the 'peace process.'" He excoriates prominent figures in politics, journalism, education, and literature who express hostility,to, or open hatred of, Jews, Judaism, and Israel. Convinced that it is in the realm of ideas that the battle will be lost or won, Alexander has given special attention to "some of the more brazen and flamboyant combatants in... the'Jewish wars' - Edward Said, Patrick Buchanan, the late George Ball, Alexander Cockburn, Michael Lerner, Noam Chomsky - and still more to certain omnipresent personality types: the timorous Jew cloaking his timidity in the robes of the biblical prophet; the treacherous Jew presenting betrayal of his own people as ethical idealism; the ferocious antisemite parading as a dispassionate 'critic of Israeli policies'; the journalist and publicist exploiting thefull public-address and public-relations systems afforded by his profession while complaining that his voice is being 'stifled' by 'the Jewish establishment.'" Recurring themes in Alexander's essays are the relations between
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Under the Shadow of Weimar: Democracy, Law, and Racial Incitement in Six Countries (Chap. 4 "The Judicial Treatment of Incitement against Ethnic Groups and of the Denial of National Socialist Mass Murder in the Federal Republic of Germany") » Read Now
by Louis Greenspan, Cyril Levitt. 235 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

This volume, written by authorities on the legal systems of France, Britain, Germany, the United States, Israel, and Canada, explores the growing confrontation between democracy and racist incitement. The authors consider current and prospective laws as they trace the efforts to enact and enforce...
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This volume, written by authorities on the legal systems of France, Britain, Germany, the United States, Israel, and Canada, explores the growing confrontation between democracy and racist incitement. The authors consider current and prospective laws as they trace the efforts to enact and enforce laws that can curb racism in the early stages of its growth without violating democratic freedoms.
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Third-Person Effects on Publication of a Holocaust-Denial Advertisement, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Vincent Price. 24 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Effects on Publication of a Holocaust-Denial Advertisement by Vincent...investigation -- a controversial "Holocaust denial" advertisement -- that appears...a significant...