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The Politics of Memory - The Journey of a Holocaust Historian (Paperback)
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The Politics of Memory - The Journey of a Holocaust Historian (Paperback)
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This is the poignant memoir of a man who has spent most of his
lifetime immersed in the evidence of one of the great horrors in
human history. It is both a record of how it affected him and a
revelation of the surprising ways in which his monumental work was
received by his contemporaries. Even after thirty-five years, Raul
Hilberg 's The Destruction of the European Jews remains the most
distinguished and comprehensive analysis of the Nazi destruction
process. Yet at the time it was written, as Mr. Hilberg recounts in
The Politics of Memory, both the manuscript and its subject matter
were rejected by major publishers and university presses; and in
the wake of publication the author faced a hostile reception from
those who refused to believe that the Jews were less than heroic in
their journey to the gas chambers. How his study was used and
abused especially by Hannah Arendt, Lucy Dawidowicz, and Nora Levin
draws Mr. Hilberg 's attention, as does the more admiring reception
for Destruction in Europe than in America. The Politics of Memory
brings full circle a scholarly enterprise that in many ways has
been a terrible calling.
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