Is the Holocaust unique? : perspectives on comparative genocide / edited and with an introduction by Alan S. Rosenbaum ; with a foreword by Israel W. Charny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

S Rosenbaum, Alan, Author.

Contributor:

Rosenbaum, Alan S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Genocide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Taylor and Francis 2018

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this highly controversial volume, distinguished scholars address the fundamental question of whether the Holocaust is unique when compared to well-known and possibly analogous instances of genocide and mass death.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the First Edition; Introduction to the Second Edition; Introduction to the Third Edition; 1 The Ethics of Uniqueness; 2 Religion and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust; 3 From the Holocaust: Some Legal and Moral Implications; 4 The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: The Historical Dimension; 5 Responses to the Porrajmos: The Romani Holocaust; 6 The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis; 7 The Armenian Genocide as Precursor and Prototype of Twentieth-Century Genocide

8 The Comparative Aspects of the Armenian and Jewish Cases of Genocide: A Sociohistorical Perspective9 Stalinist Terror and the Question of Genocide: The Great Famine; 10 The Holocaust and the Japanese Atrocities; 11 The Holocaust, Rwanda, and the Category of Genocide; 12 Hitler, Pol Pot, and Hutu Power: Common Themes in Genocidal Ideologies; 13 "Global Vision": Iran's Holocaust Denial; 14 The Promise and Limits of Comparison: The Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda; 15 Applying the Lessons of the Holocaust

16 The Rise and Fall of Metaphor: German Historians and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust17 Uniqueness as Denial: The Politicsof Genocide Scholarship; About the Book and Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-429-97476-0

0-429-49513-7

1-283-09438-X

9786613094384

0-7867-2745-4

9780429495137

OCLC:

304341535