{"product_id":"shameless-exploiting-the-holocaust-jewish-quarterly-261-9781760645465","title":"Shameless: Exploiting the Holocaust: Jewish Quarterly 261","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn novels, film and popular culture, the Holocaust genre is booming. Streaming hits and bestsellers are playing a vital role in shaping understandings of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut, as Tanya Gold shows in this crucial essay, the creators of these works all too often engage in a crass and self-serving exercise in exploitation. In this new wave of Shoah blockbuster, the destruction of the Jews becomes a plot device or a ready-made backdrop - and the truths of history and of the dead are violated. The results, in many cases, are shameful fictions that desecrate the past and misrepresent the Jewish people of today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShameless is a moral wake-up call: it shows that there are some artists who treat the Holocaust honestly, and they disgrace those who do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGold, Tanya:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tanya Gold is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's, the Spectator, the New Statesman and the New York Times. She lives in the UK.","brand":"Jewish Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603173146898,"sku":"9781760645465","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3e8029b4-48d0-407b-ba5c-3da5c73979dd.jpg?v=1757427220","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shameless-exploiting-the-holocaust-jewish-quarterly-261-9781760645465","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}