From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Holocaust Denial Trials - Challenging the Media, the Law and the Academy (Hardcover, New)

Reacting to the Irving / Lipstadt trial, the editors of this volume sought to use this latest trial as a catalyst to investigate the larger question that arose from what is now a century of invective and defense: how do we determine the truth claims made for (or by, or against) the Holocaust in various media from outright forgeries like the "Protocols of the 'Elders of Zion'" to negationist literature to the legal trials held to adjudicate such claims. In this series of short essays, each author explores the methods and assumptions within their disciplines that frame the way in which we come to understand the racism and anti-Semitism which rest beneath Holocaust denial. As teachers of college and graduate courses on the Holocaust, faced with proliferating print and web based assertions and re-assertions of premises whose veracity had long since been disproved (e.g., Protocols of Zion), we feel it important to provide our students and colleagues with a text that would step back from the

General

Imprint:	Vallentine Mitchell
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2007
First published:	March 2007
Editors:	Debra Kaufman • Gerald Herman • David Phillips
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	144
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-85303-641-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
LSN:	0-85303-641-1
Barcode:	9780853036418

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