Download Free The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering Audio Books

Declare Books As The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

Original Title:	The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
ISBN:	185984488X (ISBN13: 9781859844885)
Edition Language:	English

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

Norman G. Finkelstein

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 1815 Users | 166 Reviews

Describe Epithetical Books The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

Title	:	The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Author	:	Norman G. Finkelstein
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Second Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2003 by Verso (first published January 1st 2000)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Politics. World War II. Holocaust

Chronicle In Favor Of Books The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In an iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel's evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. Leaders of America's Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters. Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism's victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket. Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed. In a devastating new postscript to this best-selling book, Norman G. Finkelstein documents the Holocaust industry's scandalous cover-up of the blackmail of Swiss banks, and in a new appendix demolishes an influential apologia for the Holocaust industry.

Rating Epithetical Books The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

Ratings: 4.05 From 1815 Users | 166 Reviews

Article Epithetical Books The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

I kinda wanted to know more about Finkelstein's beef with Elie Wiesel, which was the juiciest part of this book. The main grudge seemed to be Finkelstein disliking that Wiesel had been made the high priest of the religion of the Holocaust. Under Wiesel's reign, the Holocaust industry had become a greedy Borg, demanding money for nebulous causes and fictional survivors.The rest of Finkelstein's beef was over the book The Painted Bird, which Weisel kept praising as a factual account and an

When you start a book like this, you sort of go, "Jeeze, I almost hope I don't like it," because you know if you do, you're going to have to explain yourself. And, confound it, I liked it.I want to conflate a couple of the points from the letters section of this book with an anecdote of my own:In 2005, while I was living in China, the whole of China became incensed at yet another inaccurate history textbook published in Japan. The text described the Nanjing Massacre (a.k.a. The Rape of Nanking)

Norman Finkelstein is a phenomenon.He enrages people but he never speaks falsehoods. Backing up his words with copious footnotes referencing the facts upon which he makes his statements, he marches like Sherman through Georgia, laying low everything in his path. All dissemblers must flee before him because there is no rebuttal to the truth.He is the same in his public appearances, citing the works of the person he debates to turn that person's own words back upon him.This logical, relentless,

I admire Finkelstein's intent in this book. He's trying to show how the various foundations and institutions which now claim to represent the Holocaust and its victims have become self-serving profit centers, using historical guilt as a way of filling their own coffers first and foremost. (That human institutions tend to perpetuate themselves by hook or crook is a conclusion that shouldn't shock most people at this point in history, but maybe I'm just too cynical).That being said, this is kind

Wow, what a book. I had this book for a few months and, after seeing the author on a documentary about the Holocaust, bumped the book to the top of my To Read pile.This work discusses the Nazi holocaust (the historical event) and how the Holocaust (capital H) was created after Arab-Israeli War in 1967. Finkelstein describes how organizations representing victims of Nazi brutality use tactics similar to those the Nazis used to get money from businesses, countries, and other groups that have any

The thrust of Professor Finkelstein's book is that powerful interests (Israel and Jewish organizations in America) have hijacked what has become known as the holocaust. And while Israel has exploited the holocaust as a weapon to deflect criticism, regardless how justified, American Jewish organizations have used the plight of supposedly needy survivors to extort staggering sums of money from the rest of the world. This was done not for the benefit of survivors, but for the financial advantage of

A short, vengeful, insightful, informative, rendition of The Holocaust Industry. Eye-opening, maybe, for some readers, but not so for others. The reason being that Prof. Finkesltein's information have been shared already by various other historians, who also lost their tenure, and were named and shamed for their "Holocaust Denial". One such victims was Prof. Thomas Dalton. Debating the Holocaust: A New Look at Both Sides . His book was banned in 57 countries. Then there's Two Hundred Years