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

Finkelstein, Norman G.

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ISBN 10: 1859847730 ISBN 13: 9781859847732

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2000

Riassunto

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 enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters.

Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski 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 not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket.

Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed.

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Recensione:

“Finkelstein’s downright pugilistic book delivers a wallop.”—LA Weekly

“The most explosive book of the year.”—The Guardian

“A lucid, provocative and passionate book.”—New Statesman

“His basic argument that memories of the Holocaust are being debased is serious and should be given its due.”—The Economist

“[S]cathing in his denunciation of the institutions and individuals who have cropped up around the issue of reparations.”—New York Press

“Finkelstein has raised some important and uncomfortable issues.”—The Jewish Quarterly

L'autore:

Norman G. Finkelstein is the author of A Nation on Trial (with Ruth Bettina Birn), named a notable book for 1998 by the New York Times Book Review, and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1859847730
• ISBN 13: 9781859847732
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 150