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Editorial NY Times (Feinstein)

From: Stephen Feinstein
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Friday, March 19 1999

For anyone on the list who does not know
Gabriel Schoenfeld, the editor of commentary
who wrote the op-ed piece, he is brainless when it
comes to the Holocaust. There was a big rift last
summer in the June issue of Commentary where he
criticized women’s studies about the Holocaust. He
very clearly wants a narrow and sanctified view, not
to include anything about genocide, and nothing to
compare the Holocaust with anything else.

To achieve
this, he appears like Rosespierre
[sic], willing to raise the guillotine on
academics.

So, in addition to criticizing some museums which deserve some criticism, he critiqued some papers from the Scholars Conference, including my own called
“Outer Edges: Pop Art and the Holocaust (not bothering with the full title–one of his tricks) or apparently bothering to come to the conference to hear it.

While he may get an op-ed page in the NY Times,
I would not take him or his journal seriously. He has done as much damage as deniers.

Dr. Stephen Feinstein,
Director Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies University of Minnesota
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#27 Pleasant Street SE Minneapolis, MN. 55455-0125

12-626-2235 Feinstein direct
612-624-0256 CENTER HOME: 612-377-3857 FAX: 612-624-4894 World wide web site: http://www.chgs.umn.edu

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