Is The Holocaust Unique? Perspectives On Comparative Genocide

by Alan S. Rosenbaum

Overview

This book combines the contentious and often unsavory Tower of Babel of scholars' voices in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies. It is essential for scholars, students, and readers interested in the Holocaust and its relationship to other instances of politically inspired mass murder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367157012
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/31/2022
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword — Preface — Introduction to the First Edition — Introduction to the Second Edition — The Ethics of Uniqueness — Religion and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust — From the Holocaust: Some Legal and Moral Implications — The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: The Historical Dimension — Responses to the Porrajmos: The Romani Holocaust1 — The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis — The Armenian Genocide as Precursor and Prototype of Twentieth-Century Genocide — The Comparative Aspects of the Armenian and Jewish Cases of Genocide: A Sociohistorical Perspective — Stalinist Terror and the Question of Genocide: The Great Famine — The Holocaust and the Japanese Atrocities — Applying the Lessons of the Holocaust — The Rise and Fall of Metaphor: German Historians and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust — Uniqueness as Denial: The Politics of Genocide Scholarship