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Holocaust Politics
More than half a century after Nazi Germany's genocidal assault on the Jewish people, the Holocaust grips our attention as never before, raising hotly-debated how is the Holocaust best remembered? What are its lessons? Who gets to answer those questions? Who owns the Holocaust? These questions provoke disagreements that can be cutthroat or constructive. Taking its point of departure from the controversy that swirled around the author's aborted appointment as director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Holocaust Politics shows how contemporary attitudes and priorities compete to determine that all-important difference.
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First published October 1, 2001
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John K. Roth
85 books5 followersJohn King Roth is an American-based author, editor, and the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) in Claremont, California. Roth taught at CMC from 1966 through 2006, where he was the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, which is now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights. Best known for his contributions to Holocaust and genocide studies, he is the author or editor of more than fifty books. In 1988, he was named the U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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November 17, 2014
Picked this up to peruse as a source for a research paper. It didn't end up actually adding that much to my research, but I read it cover to cover anyway.
I would like to go 3.5 stars, but as we must, I rounded, in this case, down. The book was interesting and definitely brought up some themes that I had not previously considered - for instance, the intersection of Holocaust and gender studies - but ultimately, it felt more like a collection of personal essays than a scholarly work. Roth is fascinating, and his own scholarly adventures are worth reading about, but he needs to call a spade a spade, rather than try to tie his stories in with scholarly examination.
So, interesting = definitely. useful for research = not so much.
I would like to go 3.5 stars, but as we must, I rounded, in this case, down. The book was interesting and definitely brought up some themes that I had not previously considered - for instance, the intersection of Holocaust and gender studies - but ultimately, it felt more like a collection of personal essays than a scholarly work. Roth is fascinating, and his own scholarly adventures are worth reading about, but he needs to call a spade a spade, rather than try to tie his stories in with scholarly examination.
So, interesting = definitely. useful for research = not so much.
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