在一篇颠覆传统且极具争议的研究中,诺曼·芬克尔斯坦从审视大屠杀在美国文化中占据的特殊地位出发,进而对近期的大屠杀赔偿协议展开令人不安的剖析。直到1967年阿以战争期间,以色列显赫的实力使其与美国外交政策保持一致,大屠杀的记忆才开始获得今日享有的非凡地位。美国犹太社区领袖欣喜于以色列被视为重要战略资产,并据芬克尔斯坦所言,他们利用大屠杀来巩固这一新地位。此后他们对这场悲剧的诠释常与实际历史事件相悖,并被用来抵御对以色列及其支持者的任何批评。芬克尔斯坦援引耶日·科辛斯基、本雅明·维尔科米尔斯基等大屠杀欺诈者,以及丹尼尔·戈德哈根等作家的煽动性论述,指出纳粹受害者记忆面临的主要威胁并非来自否认大屠杀者的歪曲,而是来自那些自诩为大屠杀记忆守护者的显赫人士。他援引大量未被发掘的资料,揭露了欧洲各国及合法犹太索赔人遭受的双重敲诈,并断言大屠杀产业已沦为赤裸裸的勒索勾当。这部研究严谨、论证缜密的著作之所以令人不安且震撼,恰因其探讨的议题鲜少被公开讨论。在这部畅销书的震撼性新后记中,诺曼·芬克尔斯坦揭露了大屠杀产业掩盖瑞士银行敲诈丑闻的丑闻,并在新增附录中彻底驳斥了为大屠杀产业辩护的权威论述。

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, New Edition 2nd Edition

Finkelstein, Norman G.

Norman G. Finkelstein

Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services), [S.l.], 2014

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 1), London, 2003

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

2nd pbk. ed, London ; New York, ©2003

2nd paperback ed, London, c2003

2 Sub edition, September 2003

Second Edition, PS, 2003

A scathing argument against those who exploit the Holocaust for personal and political gain—by a major figure at the center of the Israel-Palestine debate.“The most controversial book of the year.” —GuardianThis iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain. This new edition includes updated material discussing the initial reception to the book's publication. In an iconoclastic and controversial new study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters. Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism's victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket. Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed.

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain.
In an iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters. Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism's victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket. Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed.
In a devastating new postscript to this best-selling book, Norman G. Finkelstein documents the Holocaust industry's scandalous cover-up of the blackmail of Swiss banks, and in a new appendix demolishes an influential apologia for the Holocaust industry.

<p>It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this new-found status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters.</p><p>Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism's victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket. Thoroughly researched and closely argued, <em>The Holocaust Industry</em> is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed.</p>

In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it has today.Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism's victims comes from some of the very people who profess most passionately to defend it. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries and legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket

Thoroughly researched, this is a disturbing and powerful argument indicting with rigour and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain. This paperback edition contains a new postscript and appendix

In a memorable exchange some years back, Gore Vidal accused Norman Podhoretz, then-editor of the American Jewish Committee publication Commentary, of being un-American.

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