A country-by-country chronicle of the impact of the Holocaust on world history.
David S. Wyman is Josiah DuBois Professor of History and of Judaic Studies, Emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His previous publications include The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 and Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941. He is also the editor of the thirteen-volume America and the Holocaust. Charles H. Rosenzveig is the founder and executive vice president of the Holocaust Memorial Center in West Bloomfield, Michigan, the first free-standing Holocaust center in the United States.
Even those jaded by the seemingly-endless flow of holocaust studies will find reward in this innovative study. It is beautifully researched, well written, and beautifully (even elegantly) published. We owe a debt of gratitude to its editor and contributors for raising a question no one had previously asked, thereby holding a mirror to our too-frequent propensity toward silence and getting along. -- Bradley Shavitt Artson Conservative Judaism A solid, sensible, and exceedingly instructive volume. The scholarly standard is high, the contributions informative, the articlesm despite the essentially encyclopediac nature of the enterprise, clearly written. -- David Vital Jewish Studies A fascinating attempt to trace the cultural and political afterlife of the Holocaust in various national contexts... There is much outstanding scholarship from an impressive array of international scholars. Jewish Chronicle This work is a tremendous source for those interested in comparative analysis. -- Karen Bjornson Canadian Jewish Studies
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