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dossier, origins of antisemitism today’s AR-online AR-Online recent issues: February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 August 1998 July 1998 March 23, 1999 Letters to the Editor http://www.globeandmail.ca/gam/Commentary/19990323/TUSIMPY.html The Holocaust as kitsch GABRIEL SCHOENFELD [Lawyers for The New York Times have asked us to remove the article ( original URL above ) which was originally posted here, deeply
critical of the commercialisation of the Holocaust by bodies like the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance (which “promotes itself like a theme park”), and of what Schoenfeld called the “rising culture of victimhood”. Author Schoenfeld concluded: “It is in the interest neither of Jews nor the broader public to turn the Holocaust into grist for the mill of academic trendiness or into a carnival.”]
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