Title: The Americanization of the Holocaust /
Authors: Flanzbaum, Hilene
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Foreign public opinion, American.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Moral and ethical aspects United States.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.; Public opinion United States
Abstract: The editor sought to present representations of the Holocaust in America in such media and artifacts as "movies, theater, architecture, advertising, survivor testimony, television, the discussion of race, and literature and cultural theory."--Introduction, p. 15.
Contents: The imaginary Jew and the American poet / Hilene Flanzbaum -- Aliens in the wasteland : American encounters with the Holocaust on 1960s science fiction television / Jeffrey Shandler -- Imagining survivors : testimony and the rise of Holocaust consciousness / Henry Greenspan -- America's Holocaust : memory and the politics of identity / James E. Young -- Inheriting the Holocaust : Jewish American fiction and the double bind of the second-generation survivor / Andrew Furman -- Surviving Rego Park : Holocaust theory from Art Spiegelman to Berel Lang / Amy Hungerford -- "Three thousand miles away" : the Holocaust in recent works for the American theater / Joyce Antler -- The cinematic triangulation of Jewish American identity : Israel, America, and the Holocaust / Sara R. Horowitz -- Reflections on the Holocaust from Nebraska / Alan E. Steinweis -- "You who never was there" : slavery and the new historicism- deconstruction and the Holocaust / Walter Benn Michaels -- Suffering as a moral beacon : Blacks and Jews / Laurence Mordekhai Thomas -- Play will make you free : reprising The triumph of the will in Chicago's Nike town / Andrew Levy.