The Holocaust at fifty: old and new questions.(The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined)(Book Review)

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As a field of scholarly inquiry, the Holocaust is changing so rapidly that as I picked up Berenbaum and Peck's hefty collection of papers * from the 1993 inaugural conference of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Research Institute (now more awkwardly known as the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies), I wondered whether it was truly worth the effort. The considerably more affordable paperback edition has appeared nearly a decade after that international gathering of prominent (and promising) Holocaust scholars, and in the interim, dozens of important original studies ...

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