politics of uniqueness: reflections on the recent polemical turn to Holocaust and Genocide scholarship

Examines the debate over the uniqueness of the Holocaust as it has unfolded in the United States. It concentrates on two antagonistic camps: scholars such as Stephen Katz, Deborah Lipstadt and Daniel Goldhagen, who argue the Holocaust's uniqueness; and those like David Stannard, Ward Churchill and Norman Finkelstein who have recently attacked this notion