Shameless

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In novels film and popular culture the Holocaust genre is booming. Streaming hits and bestsellers are playing a vital role in shaping understandings of the past.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>But as Tanya Gold shows in this crucial essay the creators of these works all too often engage in a crass and self-serving exercise in exploitation. In this new wave of Shoah blockbuster the destruction of the Jews becomes a plot device or a ready-made backdrop - and the truths of history and of the dead are violated. The results in many cases are shameful fictions that desecrate the past and misrepresent the Jewish people of today.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Shameless</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is a moral wake-up call: it shows that there are some artists who treat the Holocaust honestly and they disgrace those who do not.</span></p>