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“Bloodlands” Revisited - Is the Holocaust Something Unique in History?

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/bloodlands_revisited_-_is_the_holocaust_something_unique_in_history_3911032

A constant theme in Holocaust scholarship — and a constant source of tension and anxiety — is what we might call the exceptionalism of Jewish suffering. Prof. Ken Waltzer of Michigan State University argues that Timothy Snyder's "Bloodlands" has a "subtle flattening effect" on the Holocaust and "diminishes its distinctiveness." He's right to remind us of the moral danger of distorting the Jewish experience during World War II, and it's also true that there are differences between Auschwitz and the killing fields of Cambodia. But that's a slippery slope.

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