The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Description
In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the Arab–Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it has today. Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy KosiĆski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel ...
ISBN(s)
1781685614, 9781781685617