Peter Novick
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The Holocaust in American Life
Peter Novick
A prizewinning historian offers a groundbreaking look at the changing fortunes of Holocaust memory in America and provocatively questions the prominent role it now plays in our political and cultural life.
In recent years the Holocaust has become an important and prominent symbol in American life. It is a cornerstone of how Jews understand themselves and would have others understand them as well as a moral reference point for all Americans, embodied by Washington’s Holocaust Museum, now a national shrine and the repository of lessons all must learn.
While…
