{"product_id":"the-politics-of-memory-the-journey-of-a-holocaust-historian-9781566634281","title":"The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian","description":"This is the poignant memoir of a man who has spent most of his lifetime immersed in the evidence of one of the great horrors in human history. It is both a record of how it affected him and a revelation of the surprising ways in which his monumental work was received by his contemporaries. Even after thirty-five years, Raul Hilberg's \u003ci\u003eThe Destruction of the European Jews\u003c\/i\u003e remains the most distinguished and comprehensive analysis of the Nazi destruction process. Yet at the time it was written, as Mr. Hilberg recounts in \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, both the manuscript and its subject matter were rejected by major publishers and university presses; and in the wake of publication the author faced a hostile reception from those who refused to believe that the Jews were less than heroic in their journey to the gas chambers. How his study was used and abused-especially by Hannah Arendt, Lucy Dawidowicz, and Nora Levin-draws Mr. Hilberg's attention, as does the more admiring reception for \u003ci\u003eDestruction\u003c\/i\u003e in Europe than in America. \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e brings full circle a scholarly enterprise that in many ways has been a terrible calling. \"A courageous, powerful portrait of one scholar's self-directed search for truth.\"-\u003ci\u003eToronto Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaul Hilberg is professor emeritus of history at the University of Vermont and author of The Destruction of the European Jews, Perpetrators Victims Bystanders, and Sources of Holocaust Research. He lives in Burlington, Vermont.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473830449426,"sku":"9781566634281","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e0138f09-811e-44c4-9d43-8011c2ef3299.jpg?v=1730204150","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-politics-of-memory-the-journey-of-a-holocaust-historian-9781566634281","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}