The end of the Holocaust
By: Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780253356437
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; Popular culture; Influence; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Description: In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of its memory. Investigating a wide range of events and cultural phenomena, such as Ronald Reagan's 1985 visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg, the distortions of Anne Frank's story, and the ways in which the Holocaust has been depicted by such artists and filmmakers as Judy Chicago and Steven Spielberg, Rosenfeld charts the cultural forces that have minimized the Holocuast in popular perceptions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Popular culture and the politics of memory; title: Rhetoric of victimization; title: Americanization of the Holocaust; title: Anne Frank: the posthumous years; title: Anne Frank we remember/the Anne Frank we forget; title: Jean Améry: the anguish of the witness; title: Primo Levi: the survivor as victim; title: Surviving survival: Elie Wiesel and Imre Kertész; title: End of the Holocaust; title: Epilogue: a "second Holocaust"?.