The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian

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That is the poignant memoir of a man who has spent most of his lifetime immersed in the evidence of some of the great horrors in human history. It’s both a record of how it affected him and a revelation of the surprising ways in which his monumental work was once received by his contemporaries. Even after thirty-five years, Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews remains the most distinguished and comprehensive analysis of the Nazi destruction process. Yet on the time it was once written, as Mr. Hilberg recounts in The Politics of Memory, both the manuscript and its subject matter were rejected by major publishers and university presses; and in the wake of publication the writer faced a hostile reception from those who refused to imagine that the Jews were not up to heroic in their journey to the gas chambers. How his study was once used and abused—especially by Hannah Arendt, Lucy Dawidowicz, and Nora Levin—draws Mr. Hilberg’s attention, as does the more admiring reception for Destruction in Europe than in The united states. The Politics of Memory brings full circle a scholarly enterprise that in many ways has been a terrible calling. A courageous, powerful portrait of one scholar’s self-directed seek for truth. —Toronto Globe and Mail

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