Category Archives: Holocaust

German grandmother, 87, is sentenced to ten months in jail for denying the Holocaust and saying Auschwitz was ‘just a labour camp’

Germany jails people for voicing opinions about history. Europeans should all get cards that sketch out which opinions you are allowed to voice and which opinions will get you sentenced to jail. Should all anti-Jewish opinions be illegal? What about … Continue reading

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TabletMag Investigates Holocaust Deniers

Mark Oppenheimer begins his 2009 four-part series: “In his long lifetime, James von Brunn—the 88-year-old who earlier this month allegedly shot and killed United States Holocaust Memorial Museum guard Stephen Johns—managed to embody every cliché about the Holocaust-denying anti-Semite: seething … Continue reading

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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

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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

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