The End of the Holocaust

Acknowledgments

Recto Runningfoot ix Many friends, colleagues, former students, and family members have read portions of this manuscript and given me the benefits of their insights. While they bear no responsibility for the flaws that may remain in the final version of this book, their comments and criticisms proved helpful time and again. I am especially grateful to Edward Alexander, Ilan Avisar, Lisa Braverman, DovBer Kerler, Myron Kolatch, Barbara Krawcowicz, Matthias Lehmann , Vivian Liska, Daniel and Gale Nichols, Cynthia Ozick, Aron Rodrigue, Dalia Rosenfeld, Erna Rosenfeld, Gavriel Rosenfeld , Sidney Rosenfeld, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, John Schilb, David Semmel, David Singer, Eric Sundquist, Leona Toker, Jeffrey Veidlinger, and Elhanan Yakira. It is also a pleasure to acknowledge the assistance of Meghan Clark, who efficiently and cheerfully helped me prepare the manuscript of this book for publication. I am grateful to Indiana University for awarding me a sabbatical research leave during the fall semester 2009 and to Andrea Ciccarelli , the director of the university’s College Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI), for a research fellowship during spring 2010. Both awards made it possible for me to read and write in a more focused way than otherwise would have been possible. I thank the following for permission to reprint earlier versions of some of the material in this book: acknowledgments x the end of the holocaust The Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, of the University of Michigan, for permission to reprint an earlier version of “The Americanization of the Holocaust,” which appeared as the David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, for permission to reprint material from “Anne Frank and the Future of Holocaust Memory,” the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture, available as an occasional paper from the Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, copyright 2005 by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Northwestern University Press, for permission to reprint material from “Popularization and Memory: The Case of Anne Frank,” from Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World, edited by Peter Hayes (1991). The American Jewish Committee, for permission to reprint material from “The Assault on Holocaust Memory,” American Jewish Year Book (2001). The American Labor Conference on International Affairs, Inc., for permission to reprint commentary on Imre Kertész and Elie Wiesel, which previously appeared in The New Leader (November/December 2004 and January/February 2009). The Weekly Standard for permission to reprint material that originally appeared in “Exploiting Anne Frank,” which was first published on June 23, 2008. For more information visit www .weeklystandard.com. x acknowledgments Recto Runningfoot xi the end o f the ho l o ca us t xii the end of the holocaust ...