After the Holocaust

For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. After the Challenging the Myth of Silence is the first collection of authoritative, original scholarship to expose a serious misreading of the past on which, controversially, the claims for a ‘Holocaust industry’ rest. Taking an international approach this bold new book exposes the myth and opens the way for a sweeping reassessment of Jewish life in the postwar era, a life lived in the pervasive, shared awareness that Jews had narrowly survived a catastrophe that had engulfed humanity as a whole but claimed two-thirds of their number. The chapters A breakthrough volume in the debate about the ‘Myth of Silence’, this is a must for all students of Holocaust and genocide.