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. This collection of essays attempts to expose a serious misreading of the past on which, controversially, the claims for a ‘Holocaust industry’ rest. It 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.