American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965, Kirsten Fermaglich (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2006), v + 252 pp., cloth 29.95, pbk. 26.95
Through profiles of four prominent Jewish intellectuals (historian Stanley Elkins, journalist Betty Friedan, psychologist Stanley Milgram, and psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton), Kirsten Fermaglich offers an engaging and insightful look at the nature of post–World War II American public life, Jewish ide...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 331-334 |
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| Summary: | Through profiles of four prominent Jewish intellectuals (historian Stanley Elkins, journalist Betty Friedan, psychologist Stanley Milgram, and psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton), Kirsten Fermaglich offers an engaging and insightful look at the nature of post–World War II American public life, Jewish identity, and memory of the Holocaust. Contemporary understanding of the Holocaust emphasizes its unique historical circumstances—particularly the vicious antisemitism of the Nazi regime. In contrast, during late 1950s and early 1960s the subjects of Fermaglich's study stressed a more universalistic view. They were interested above all in what the Holocaust revealed about humanity and how lessons from it could be applied to political causes. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcm034 |