After the Holocaust

<p>For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence is the first collection of authoritative original scholarship to expose a serious misreading of the past on which controversially the claims for a ‘Holocaust industry’ rest. Taking an international approach this bold new book exposes the myth and opens the way for a sweeping reassessment of Jewish life in the postwar era a life lived in the pervasive shared awareness that Jews had narrowly survived a catastrophe that had engulfed humanity as a whole but claimed two-thirds of their number.</p><p>The chapters include: </p><ul> <ul> <p> </p> <li>an overview of the efforts by survivor historians and memoir writers to inform the world of the catastrophe that had befallen the Jews of Europe </li> <p> </p> <li>an evaluation of the work of survivor-historians and memoir writers</li> <p> </p> <li>new light on the Jewish historical commissions and the Jewish documentation centres </li> <p> </p> <li>studies of David Boder a Russian born psychologist who recorded searing interviews with survivors and the work of philosophers social thinkers and theologians </li> <p> </p> <li>theatrical productions by survivors and the first films on the theme made in Hollywood </li> <p> </p> <li>how the Holocaust had an impact on the everyday life of Jews in the USA</li> <p> </p> <li>and a discussion of the different types and meanings of ‘silence’.</li> </ul> </ul><p>A breakthrough volume in the debate about the ‘Myth of Silence’ this is a must for all students of Holocaust and genocide.</p>