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Article: "Holocaust Memory: Bad for the Jews?".
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- Judaism
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The Holocaust in American Life. By PETER NOVICK. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Imagine a well-meaning person-Jewish or non-Jewish--who has been moved by a visit to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, who has waded through historical accounts and memoirs on the topic, and who then picks up Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life. How will he or she react to the discovery that a prominent Jewish American historian now condemns the entire effort to remember and comprehend the Jewish catastrophe of 1933-1945 as yet one more trend that is "bad for the Jews"? Just when Jews and Gentiles seemed to have agreed that knowledge of the Holocaust should be part of every ...