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''Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide'' is a 1995 book about the
Holocaust uniqueness debate The assertion that the Holocaust was a unique event was important to the historiography of the Holocaust, but has come under increasing challenge in the twenty-first century. Related claims include that the Holocaust is external to history, beyond ...
, edited by Alan Rosenbaum. In the book, scholars compare the Holocaust to other well-known instances of genocide and mass death. The book asks whether there are any historical parallels to the Jewish Holocaust and whether Armenians, Romani people, American Indians, or others have undergone a comparable genocide. As Alan Rosenbaum stated in regards to the book: A second edition was printed in 2000 and a third edition was released in 2009. Official sponsor of Westview Press book sales.


Contents

* ''The ethics of uniqueness'' by
John K. Roth John King Roth is an American-based author, editor, and the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) in Claremont, California. Roth taught at CMC from 1966 through 2006, where he was the founding direct ...
* ''Religion and the uniqueness of the Holocaust'' by
Richard L. Rubenstein Richard Lowell Rubenstein (January 8, 1924 – May 16, 2021) was a theologian, educator, and writer, noted particularly for his path-breaking contributions to post-Holocaust theology and his socio-political analyses of surplus populations an ...
* ''From the Holocaust: some legal and moral implications'' by Richard J. Goldstone * ''The uniqueness of the Holocaust: the historical dimension'' by Steven T. Katz * ''Responses to the Porrajmos: the Romani Holocaust'' by Ian Hancock * ''The Atlantic slave trade and the Holocaust: a comparative analysis'' by Seymour Drescher * ''The Armenian genocide as precursor and prototype of twentieth-century genocide'' by Robert F. Melson * ''The comparative aspects of the Armenian and Jewish cases of genocide: a sociohistorical perspective'' by
Vahakn N. Dadrian Vahakn Norair Dadrian ( hy, Վահագն Տատրեան; 26 May 1926 – 2 August 2019) was an Armenian-American sociologist and historian, born in Turkey, professor of sociology, historian, and an expert on the Armenian genocide. Life Dadrian ...
* ''Stalinist terror and the question of genocide: the great famine'' by Barbara B. Green * ''The Holocaust and the Japanese atrocities'' by Kinue Tokudome * ''Applying the lessons of the Holocaust'' by
Shimon Samuels Shimon ( he, שמעון) is the original Hebrew pronunciation of the names Simon and Simeon. Among individuals, Shimon can refer to: Given names * Shimon Agranat (1906-1992), Israeli judge and President of the Israeli Supreme Court * Shimon Amsale ...
* ''The rise and fall of metaphor: German historians and the uniqueness of the Holocaust'' by Wulf Kansteiner * ''Uniqueness as denial: the politics of genocide scholarship'' by David E. Stannard


See also

* Historic recurrence * Holocaust trivialization *
Historikerstreit The ''Historikerstreit'' (, "historians' dispute") was a dispute in the late 1980s in West Germany between conservative and left-of-center academics and other intellectuals about how to incorporate Nazi Germany and the Holocaust into German hist ...


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* (3rd edition; 2018) *{{cite journal , first = Steven L. , last = Jacobs, date =June 1998 , volume=3 , issue=2 , title =Holocaust and Genocide Studies: The Future Is Now , journal=Center News , publisher =University of Nevada, Reno , url =http://www.unr.edu/chgps/jacobs.html , archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070913214841/http://www.unr.edu/chgps/jacobs.html , archivedate = 2007-09-13 1995 non-fiction books Holocaust Holocaust studies