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Is the Holocaust unique?, perspectives on comparative genocide, edited and with an introduction by Alan S. Rosenbaum ; with a foreward by Israel W. Charny

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Is the Holocaust unique?

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edited and with an introduction by Alan S. Rosenbaum ; with a foreward by Israel W. Charny

perspectives on comparative genocide

In this highly controversial volume, distinguished scholars address the fundamental question of whether the Holocaust is unique when compared to well-known and possibly analogous instances of genocide and mass death

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the first edition -- Introduction to the second edition -- Introduction to the third edition -- 1: The ethics of uniqueness -- 2: Religion and the uniqueness of the Holocaust -- 3: From the Holocaust : some legal and moral implications -- 4: The uniqueness of the Holocaust : the historical dimension -- 5: Responses to the Porrajmos : the Romani Holocaust -- 6: The Atlantic slave trade and the Holocaust : a comparative analysis -- 7: The Armenian genocide as precursor and prototype of twentieth-century genocide -- 8: The comparative aspects of the Armenian and Jewish cases of genocide : a sociohistorical perspective -- 9: Stalinist terror and the question of genocide : the great famine -- 10: The Holocaust and the Japanese atrocities -- 11: The Holocaust, Rwanda, and the category of genocide -- 12: Hitler, Pol Pot, and Hutu power : common themes in genocidal ideologies -- 13: Global vision : Iran's Holocaust denial -- 14: The promise and limits of comparison : the Holocaust and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda -- 15: Applying the lessons of the Holocaust -- 16: The rise and fall of metaphor : German historians and the uniqueness of the Holocaust -- 17: Uniqueness as denial : the politics of genocide scholarship -- About the book and contributors -- Index