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The holocaust industry:

reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering
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Verso, 2003 - History - 286 pages
In an iconoclastic and controversial new study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. 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 enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters. Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism's victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket. Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed.
  

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Contents

Acknowledgements
ix
Foreword to the Second Paperback Edition
xi
Foreword to the First Paperback Edition
xv
Introduction
1
Capitalizing The Holocaust
9
Hoaxers Hucksters and History
39
The Double Shakedown
79
Conclusion
141
Postscript to the First Paperback Edition
151
Postscript to the Second Paperback Edition
179
Appendix to the Second Paperback Edition
207
Index
275
Copyright

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About the author (2003)

Norman G. Finkelstein is the author of A Nation on Trial (with Ruth Bettina Birn), named a notable book for 1998 by the New York Times Book Review , and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict .

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TitleThe holocaust industry: reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering
AuthorNorman G Finkelstein
Edition2
PublisherVerso, 2003
ISBN185984488X, 9781859844885
Length286 pages
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History / Holocaust
History / Jewish
  
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