Historicism, the Holocaust, and Zionism: Critical studies in modern Jewish thought and history

A number of the 12 essays in this book deal with the influence of the Holocaust on subsequent Jewish philosophy and historiography. Katz argues that the Shoah represented a unique disaster but might still be likened to slavery, witch hunts, defeat of the American Indians and other instances of genocide or large-scale murder. Also contends that none of these mass destructions was more malignant than any others and that a specially transcendent religious meaning should not be assigned to the Holocaust