Denial of the denial, or the battle of Auschwitz : the demography and geopolitics of the Holocaust : the view from the twenty-first century / Alfred Kokh and Pavel Polian, editors ; Sergeui Silichtchev, Beate Brown, translators.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kokh, Alfred.

Polian, Pavel.

Series:

Out of series

Standardized Title:

Otriëtìsanie otriëtìsaniëiìa, ili, Bitva pod Aushviëtìsem.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust denial.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the decades, the Holocaust has remained a critical issue both historically and politically. This is due to the modernization of anti-Semitism in the West, where accusations of ritual murder have long been passé and claims that the Holocaust was a hoax are de riguer, and to the government sanctions of anti-Semitism in the East in countries such as Iran. The purely scholarly problem of determining the number of victims, like other aspects of demography related to the Holocaust, have suddenly become closely embroiled in geopolitics and the phenomenon of Holocaust denial, which is now a context that has been forced upon it. This book is imbued with these connections and interrelationships. Avraham, Wolfgang Benz, Sergio Della Pergola, Mark Kupovetsky, Dieter Pohl, Aron Shneer, and the editors contribute their voices to the topic.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FROM THE EDITORS / Kokh, Alfred / Polian, Pavel

I

A DENIAL OF DENIAL / Kokh, Alfred

THE DENIAL OF THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS GEOPOLITICS / Polian, Pavel

II

THE DEMOGRAPHY OF POST-SOVIET JEWRY. GLOBAL AND LOCAL CONTEXTS / Della Pergola, Sergio

THE DIMESIONS OF THE HOLOCAUST / Benz, Wolfgang

JUST HOW MANY? ON THE DEATH TOLL OF JEWISH VICTIMS OF NAZI CRIMES / Pohl, Dieter

JEWISH POPULATION LOSSES DURING WORLD WAR II WITHIN THE PREWAR (SEPTEMBER 1939) AND POSTWAR BORDERS OF THE USSR / Kupovetsky, Mark

THE HALL OF NAMES AND THE CENTRAL DATA BASE OF SHOAH VICTIMS' NAMES / Avraham, Alexander

THE HOLOCAUST IN LATVIA ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS OF THE "HALL OF NAMES" YAD VASHEM. "PAGES OF TESTIMONY" AS A SOURCE FOR THE RESEARCH OF THE HOLOCAUST IN LATVIA / Shneer, Aron

III

THE DEMOGRAPHY AND STATISTICS OF THE HOLOCAUST / Polyan, Pavel

Afterword. THE TRIAL OVER THE SIX MILLION / Kokh, Alfred

AFTERWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION / Polyan, Pavel

APPENDICIES

Appendix 1. Selected Bibliography on Holocaust Denial

Appendix 2. The First Soviet Estimates of the Victims of the Auschwitz Death Camp

Appendix 3. Europe's Dead and Killed Jews by Countries and Categories: Different Estimates

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-61811-119-1

OCLC:

1135585092