Americanization of the Holocaust

Informationen zum Autor Hilene Flanzbaum is an associate professor of English at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, and an editor of Jewish-American Literature: A Norton Anthology . Klappentext The Holocaust has achieved a significant place in the American cultural consciousness -- movies, books, journalism, theater, television, populr college courses, and monuments including the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Relatively few citizens of the United States were directly affected by the Holocaust, yet it is an almost constant presence in the nation's consciousness. Arguable, in the 1990s it has supplanted Hiroshima nd Nagasaki at ground zero of our culture. Flanzbaum here presents a collection of essays on the American cultural appropriation of the Holocaust, from

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• Authors: Hilene Flanzbaum, Hilene (Assistant Professor Flanzbaum
• Assisted by: Hilene Flanzbaum (Editor), Flanzbaum Hilene (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.05.1999
• EAN: 9780801860225
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6022-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, History of Ideas, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History of the Americas, c 1940 to c 1949, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater