The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering - Brossura

Finkelstein, Norman G.

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ISBN 10: 1781685614 ISBN 13: 9781781685617

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2015

Riassunto

In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the Arab–Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it has today.

Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosiński and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism’s victims comes from some of the very people who profess most passionately to defend it. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries and legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket.

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Recensione:

'Finkelstein s downright pugilistic book delivers a wallop mostly because few authors have had the courage or nerve to say, as he does, that the Nazi genocide has been distorted and robbed of its true moral lessons and instead has been put to use as an indispensable ideological weapon . It s a provocative thesis that makes you want to reject it even as you are compelled to keep reading by the strength of his case and the bravura of his assertions.' --LA Weekly

'His basic argument that memories of the Holocaust are being debased is serious and should be given its due.' --Economist

'If his indictment is a true one, it should prompt prosecutions, sackings, protest. The book shouts scandal. It is a polemic, communicated at maximum volume.' --The Times

L'autore:

Norman G. Finkelstein taught political theory and the Israel–Palestine conflict for many years. He is the author of eight books, which have been translated into more than forty foreign editions, including What Gandhi Says; This Time We Went Too Far; Beyond Chutzpah; and Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1781685614
• ISBN 13: 9781781685617
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 286