IMAGES OF THE HOLOCAUST The Myth of the Shoah Business TIM COLE DUCKWORTH & CO LTD 1999 1st Edition. 24 x 16 cm. ix + 214 pp. HB/DJ From a position of effective ignorance after the Second World War, the Holocaust has taken centre stage in the modern world. Why this silence followed by intense interest? In this provocative book, Tim Cole argues that every period and place has created its own myth of the Nazi atrocities. Using the memory of the historical event as a means rather than an end, distorted and competing images were created in Europe, Israel and the United States. Trying to infuse comfort through myths, an essential aspect of the past was lost: from a desexualised Americanised Anne Frank, the Israeli propaganda surrounding the Eichmann trial, to the modern commercialism of Schindler's List, religious colonialism at Auschwitz, and the nationalism of memorials at Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The danger of this mythologising is that it opens the door to revisionism and denial of the Holocaust. Tim Cole shows that, while public knowledge of the Holocaust has grown since the 1960s, we are veering away from it by increasingly opting for the comfort provided by these myths. In Krakow tourists now visit the street where Steven Spielberg filmed the girl in the red dress. At the Washington memorial museum interactive role-play suggests that half of the victims survived. Soon we will have consumed the Shoah.

IMAGES OF THE HOLOCAUST
The Myth of the Shoah Business

TIM COLE

GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO LTD
1999

First Edition.
From a position of effective ignorance after the Second World War, the Holocaust has taken centre stage in the modern world. Why this silence followed by intense interest?

In this provocative book, Tim Cole argues that every period and place has created its own myth of the Nazi atrocities. Using the memory of the historical event as a means rather than an end, distorted and competing images were created in Europe, Israel and the United States. Trying to infuse comfort through myths, an essential aspect of the past was lost: from a desexualised Americanised Anne Frank, the Israeli propaganda surrounding the Eichmann trial, to the modern commercialism of Schindler's List, religious colonialism at Auschwitz, and the nationalism of memorials at Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The danger of this mythologising is that it opens the door to revisionism and denial of the Holocaust.

Tim Cole shows that, while public knowledge of the Holocaust has grown since the 1960s, we are veering away from it by increasingly opting for the comfort provided by these myths. In Krakow tourists now visit the street where Steven Spielberg filmed the girl in the red dress. At the Washington memorial museum interactive role-play suggests that half of the victims survived. Soon we will have consumed the Shoah.

24 x 16 cm. ix + 214 pp.

Very good + condition, bottom corner of boards lightly bumped, hint of age toning to page edges, otherwise very clean and tidy.




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