Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Modern Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
20,3 (2000) 277-298
Keywords:
Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
Abstract:
Discusses the tension between two goals of Yad Vashem - sponsoring independent research and commemorating the victims of the Holocaust - as reflected in the decision about which book on the Holocaust to publish in Hebrew. Gerald Reitlinger's "The Final Solution" (1953) was rejected because the Jews in Europe were portrayed as completely passive and the author paid little attention to Jewish sources. Joseph Tenenbaum's "Race and Reich" (1956) was rejected because it focused on Nazi ideology rather than the Jews. The work that caused the greatest problem for Yad Vashem was Raul Hilberg's Ph.D. dissertation, eventually published in 1961 as "The Destruction of the European Jews, " in which he expressed the view that the Jews collaborated in their own destruction. In the case of Hilberg, Yad Vashem decided not to participate in the publication of a work that did not clearly distinguish between victims and perpetrators - despite its value in explaining the process of extermination of European Jewry.
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