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Is the Holocaust unique? : perspectives on comparative genocide

Author: Alan S Rosenbaum
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996.
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Evaluating the Jewish Holocaust is by no means a simple matter, and one of the most controversial questions for academics is whether there have been any historical parallels for it. Have Armenians, Gypsies, American Indians, or others undergone a comparable genocide? In this fiercely controversial volume, distinguished scholars offer new discussions of this question. Presenting a wide range of strongly held views,
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Is the Holocaust unique?
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996
(OCoLC)605386581
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alan S Rosenbaum
ISBN: 0813326419 9780813326412 0813326427 9780813326429
OCLC Number: 34244642
Description: xix, 222 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Alan S. Rosenbaum --
Religion and the uniqueness of the Holocaust / Richard L. Rubenstein --
The uniqueness of the Holocaust : the historical dimension / Steven T. Katz --
Responses to the Porrajmos : The Romani Holocaust / Ian Hancock --
The Atlantic slave trade and the Holocaust : a comparative analysis / Seymour Drescher --
The Armenian genocide as precursor and prototype of twentieth-century genocide / Robert F. Melson --
The comparative aspects of the Armenian and Jewish cases of genocide : a sociohistorical perspective / Vahakn N. Dadrian --
Stalinist terror and the question of genocide : the great famine / Barbara B. Green --
Uniqueness as denial : the politics of genocide scholarship / David E. Stannard.
Responsibility: edited with an introd. by Alan S. Rosenbaum ; with a foreword by Israel W. Charny.
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Abstract:

Evaluating the Jewish Holocaust is by no means a simple matter, and one of the most controversial questions for academics is whether there have been any historical parallels for it. Have Armenians, Gypsies, American Indians, or others undergone a comparable genocide? In this fiercely controversial volume, distinguished scholars offer new discussions of this question. Presenting a wide range of strongly held views, they provide no easy consensus.

Some critics contend that if the Holocaust is seen as fundamentally different in kind from other genocides or mass deaths, the suffering of other persecuted groups will be diminished. Others argue that denying the uniqueness of the Holocaust will trivialize it. Alan Rosenbaum's introduction provides a much-needed context for readers to come to terms with this multidimensional dispute, to help them understand why it has recently intensified, and to enable them to appreciate what universal lessons might be gleaned from studying the Holocaust.

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