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Peter Novick. The Holocaust in American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1999. Pp. 373. $27.00.

I have been teaching a university course on the Holocaust for more than twenty-five years, and not since I first encountered Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews (1961) have I found a book as stimulating and troubling. Stimulating, because Peter Novick raises nearly every critical issue confronting those who write and teach about the Holocaust; troubling, because nearly every conclusion he draws is the opposite of my own. . . .


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