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Category Archives: Holocaust
What Makes For A Righteous Goy?
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …In the late sixties and early seventies, at the same time that the arrival of the “new anti-Semitism” was announced, American Jewish organizations were changing their … Continue reading
The Consequences Of Making The Holocaust Central In Jewish Life
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …Once the Holocaust became centered in Jewish consciousness, and to the extent that it became centered, it provided a language and framework that deepened anxiety about … Continue reading
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WEHT To The Black-Jewish Alliance?
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …there was never much of a black-Jewish alliance on the communal or organizational level. There were a great many individual Jews who over the years had … Continue reading
Israel As Atonement For The Holocaust
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …It’s not clear how the myth of Israel as the world’s atonement for complicity in the Holocaust developed… There has been an apparent slide from the … Continue reading
Who’s Got The Most Victimhood Points?
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …the decline in American of an integrationist ethos (which focused on what Americans have in common and what unites us) and its replacement by a particularist … Continue reading
What’s Good For Jews Is Sometimes Bad For Others
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …From the 1970s on, the growth sector in the Jewish organizational world consisted of old and new “schrei gevalt” agencies, while those with other agendas, like … Continue reading
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Let’s Import More Muslims, What Could Go Wrong?
Steve Sailer writes: “NYT op-ed columnist Roger Cohen argues for importing vast numbers of anti-Semites into Europe as payback for Christendom’s past anti-Semitism.” Comments: * How dare Hungary appoint itself the arbiter of its own policies, that job rightfully belongs … Continue reading
Jews & Germans
American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: Just as Jewish groups’ principled declarations against totalitarianism did not prevent them from seeking entry for Jews who had been Communists, so the Christian groups’ equally … Continue reading
The Holocaust in American Life
Why does the Holocaust play such a large role in American life? And is that a good thing? American Jewish historian Peter Novick writes in his book The Holocaust in American Life: …Serb’s central memory, the lost Battle of Kosovo … Continue reading
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The Holocaust in American Life by Peter Novick
This looks like a fascinating book. Here are excerpts of some reviews: * Prize-winning historian Peter Novick illuminates the reasons Americans ignored the Holocaust for so long — how dwelling on German crimes interfered with Cold War mobilization; how American … Continue reading