Table of Contents
Foreword Israel W. Charny ix
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction to the First Edition Alan S. Rosenbaum 1
Introduction to the Second Edition Alan S. Rosenbaum 11
Introduction to the Third Edition Alan S. Rosenbaum 21
1 The Ethics of Uniqueness John K. Roth 27
2 Religion and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust Richard L. Rubenstein 39
3 From the Holocaust: Some Legal and Moral Implications Richard J. Goldstone 47
4 The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: The Historical Dimension Steven T. Katz 55
5 Responses to the Porrajmos: The Romani Holocaust Ian Hancock 75
6 The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis Seymour Drescher 103
7 The Armenian Genocide as Precursor and Prototype of Twentieth-Century Genocide Robert F. Melson 125
8 The Comparative Aspects of the Armenian and Jewish Cases of Genocide: A Sociohistorical Perspective Vahakn N. Dadrian 139
9 Stalinist Terror and the Question of Genocide: The Great Famine Barbara B. Green 175
10 The Holocaust and the Japanese Atrocities Kinue Tokudome 201
11 The Holocaust, Rwanda, and the Category of Genocide Jerry Fowler 215
12 Hitler, Pol Pot, and Hutu Power: Common Themes in Genocidal Ideologies Ben Kiernan 223
13 "Global Vision": Iran's Holocaust Denial Matthias Kuentzel 231
14 The Promise and Limits of Comparison: The Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda Scott Straus 245
15 Applying the Lessons of the Holocaust Shimon Samuels 259
16 The Rise and Fall of Metaphor: German Historians and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust Wulf Kansteiner 271
17 Uniqueness as Denial: The Politics of Genocide Scholarship David E. Stannard 295
About theBook and Contributors 341
Index 345
