The Americanization of the Holocaust

The Holocaust has achieved a significant place in the American cultural consciousness - movies, books, journalism, theater, television, populr college courses, and monuments including the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D. C. Relatively few citizens of the United States were directly affected by the Holocaust, yet it is an almost constant presence in the nation's consciousness. Arguable, in the 1990s it has supplanted Hiroshima nd Nagasaki at ground zero of our culture. Flanzbaum here presents a collection of essays on the American cultural appropriation of the Holocaust, from