Contesting histories : German and Jewish Americans and the legacy of the Holocaust /

A history of Holocaust understanding (and misunderstanding) in German- and Jewish-American communities. Focusing on both past and recent debates in academia, Schuldiner provides expansive historical context for understanding the Holocaust's reception and place in American historiography.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schuldiner, Michael Joseph
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, [2011]
Series:	Modern Jewish history (Lubbock, Tex.)
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence. Public opinion > Germany. Public opinion > United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion, German. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion, American. Jews > United States > Attitudes.

Table of Contents:

Holocaust debates: from main street to academia
Holocaust uniqueness and American retribution
Interventionism versus isolationism or Jewish Americans versus German Americans?
The Holocaust "debates" of the 1930s and 1940s
German ethnics and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum question
The battle of Bitburg
Browning and Goldhagen: man and superman, ordinary Germans or ordinary men?
German American and Jewish American views of the Holocaust.