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Selling The Holocaust: From Auschwitz To Schindler: How History Is Bought, Packaged, And Sold
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Tim Cole
Cole shows us an "Auschwitz-land" where tourists have become the "ultimate ruberneckers" passing by and gazing at someone else's tragedy. He shows us a US Holocaust Museum that provides visitors with a "virtual Holocaust" experience.
Hardcover, 214 pages
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by Routledge
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Good companion to Virtually Jewish for learning about the difference between the destruction of european Jewry and "the Holocaust" as a consumable narrative... and the author is appropriately clear about the difference between this critique and bullshit denialism. Cole talks about Anne Frank, Oskar Schindler (and the movie), Auschwitz, Yad Vashem, Eichmann, and the US Holocaust History Museum as examples of the difference between history and the presentation of history for mass audienc...more
This book reveals some of the changes, contradictions and simplifications the history of the Holocaust has undergone. It used to be an epoch about which no one spoke; today it is a central part of the way in which we view European history and towns all over the world have Holocaust museums. Cole asks difficult questions about Holocaust tourism, the way in which the dreadful events have been co-opted by America and Israel, and the phenomena of Oscar-nominated cinematic representations of death ca...more
Essential reading for anyone interested in the Holocaust, memorialization and memory, contemporary Judaism, and Israel. Particularly relevant to post-9/11 America.
Tim Cole is my friend! Of course I think the book is fabulous and recommend highly!
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