Holocaust

“Lipstadt’s Holocaust: An American Understanding fulfills its editors’ request for a volume that ‘decipher[s]’ a key word in Jewish Studies and underscores ‘the points of intersection between academic disciplines and wider spheres of culture.’ And to my mind, it also succeeds as a mini-intellectual and social biography of a scholar and Jewish advocate who has become one of the most remarkable Jewish women of our time.” (Antisemitism Studies) “Drawing on primary and secondary sources as well as interviews, Lipstadt’s book details the manner in which the Shoah moved from a little-understood, horrific casualty of WW II to its present impact on American culture, politics, and the US Jewish community … Lipstadt’s exceptional book deserves to be in libraries as well as in colleges and universities that offer courses on the Holocaust and its aftermath … Summing up: Essential. All levels/libraries.” (Choice) “Deborah Lipstadt always writes smoothly and reasons vigorously. This book is lucid, accessible, and courageous - I couldn’t put it down.” - Peter Hayes (Professor of History and German, Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor, Nort) “[Holocaust] is very much an account of an American discourse on the Holocaust, and one in which Jewish voices take centre stage. For those on Jewish studies programmes in US universities, it will serve as a helpful introduction to the main trends since 1945.” (Times Higher Education) “Offer[s] yet another revealing avenue into American understandings of the Holocaust.” (Journal of American History) “Zuckerberg’s comments give Holocaust deniers an opening” by Deborah Lipstadt (CNN.com)

DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her many books include Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945, History on Trial, and The Eichmann Trial.