For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that
the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the
1970s. After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence is the
first collection of authoritative, original scholarship to expose a
serious misreading of the past on which, controversially, the
claims for a Holocaust industry rest. Taking an international
approach this bold new book exposes the myth and opens the way for
a sweeping reassessment of Jewish life in the postwar era, a life
lived in the pervasive, shared awareness that Jews had narrowly
survived a catastrophe that had engulfed humanity as a whole but
claimed two-thirds of their number.
The chapters include:
- an overview of the efforts by survivor historians and memoir
writers to inform the world of the catastrophe that had befallen
the Jews of Europe
- an evaluation of the work of survivor-historians and memoir
writers
- new light on the Jewish historical commissions and the Jewish
documentation centres
- studies of David Boder, a Russian born psychologist who
recorded searing interviews with survivors, and the work of
philosophers, social thinkers and theologians
- theatrical productions by survivors and the first films on the
theme made in Hollywood
- how the Holocaust had an impact on the everyday life of Jews in
the USA
- and a discussion of the different types, and meanings, of
silence .
A breakthrough volume in the debate about the Myth of Silence,
this is a must for all students of Holocaust and genocide.
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