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Historical Documentation Notice

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Holocaust Controversies
Persist

The
Purpose of the Communication . . .

HEN
I began to think about it, I realized that I had been doing what every writer, unconsciously, is always doing: a writer is never listening to what is being said, he is never listening to what he is being told. He is listening to what is not being said, he is listening to what he is not being told, which means that he is trying to discover the purpose of the communication.”

— James Baldwin, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Henry Holt and Company, New
York, 1985, p. 95

IN THE spring of 1994, before
and after the Spielberg movie Schindler’s List won
the Academy Award for best picture of the year, essayist
and playwright Bradley Smith bought the first,
second and third edition of Thomas Keneally‘s
novel.

He soon noticed the strange disappearing act with regard to the word
“fiction” among the usual publication data on the back side of the title page.

Whereas the words “fiction” and “fictitiously” appeared five times in the first edition, and the word
“fiction” appeared three times in the second edition, both words had been excluded from the publication data in the third edition.

Smith noted these omissions in his Summer 1994 issue of his Campus Update for Editors (p. 7).

During this same period, the literary supplement (“Focus”) in weekend editions of the Toronto Globe and
Mail began listing the Keneally novel in the
nonfiction section of bestsellers.

The
Strange Transition of
Schindler’s List:

First Edition, purchased March 1994:

[LOGO] TOUCHSTONE Rockefeller Center
1230 Avenue of the Americas New York. New York
10020

This book is a work of
fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Copyright ©1982 by Hemisphere Publishers
Limited Cover art copyright ©1993 by MCA Publishing
Rights, a Division of MCA, Inc. All rights reserved,

All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in pan In any form. This
Touchstone Edition © 1993 TOUCHSTONE and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster Inc. Designed by Eve Metz
Manufactured in the United States of America

5 7 9 10 8 6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data

Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s List. 1.
Schindler, Oskar,.
1908-1974–fiction.
2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)–fiction.
3. World war,
1939-1945–fiction.

I. Title. PR96l9.3.K46S3 1982 823 82-10489 ISBN:
0-671-44977-X 0-671-77972-9 0-671-88031-4

The author extends his grateful appreciation for photographs supplied through the courtesy of Yad
Vashem Photographic Service and Leopold Page (Leopold Pfefferberg)

Second Edition, purchased
April 1994:

[LOGO] TOUCHSTONE Rockefeller Center
1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York
10020

Copyright ©1982 by Serpentine Publishing
Co. Pty Ltd. Cover art copyright ©1993 by MCA
Publishing Rights, a Division of MCA. Inc. All rights reserved.

All rights reserved including the right or reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This
Touchstone Edition © 1993 TOUCHSTONE and colophon arc registered trademarks or Simon &
Schuster Inc. Designed by Eve Metz Manufactured in the United States of America

13 15 17 19 20 18 16 14 12

Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication
Data is available.

Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s List. 1.
Schindler. Oskar.
1908-1974-fiction.
2. Holocaust.Jewish (1939-1945)-fiction.
3. World war,
1939-1945-fiction.

I. Title. PR9619.3.K46S3 1982 823 82-10489 ISBN:
0-671-44977-X 0-671-777972-9 0-67l-88O31-4

The author extends his grateful appreciation for photographs supplied through the courtesy of Yad
Vashem Photographic Service and Leopold Page (Leopold Pfefferberg).

Third Edition, purchased
May 1994:

[LOGO] TOUCHSTONE Rockefeller
Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, New
York 10020

Copyright ©1982 by Serpentine Publishing
Co. Pty Ltd. Cover art copyright ©1993 by MCA
Publishing Rights, a Division of MCA Inc. All rights reserved.

All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. This
Touchstone Edition © 1993 TOUCHSTONE and colophon am registered trademarks of Simon &
Schuster Inc. Designed by Eve Metz Manufactured in the United States of America

15 17 19 20 18 16

Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication
Data is available.

82-10499 ISBN: 0-67144977wX 0-67l-77972-9
0-671-88031-4

The author extends his grateful appreciation for photographs supplied through the courtesy or Yad
Vashem Photographic Service and Leopold Page (Leopold Pfefferberg)

Bradley Smith’s irreverent
editorial comment:

“Give
’em another couple years and we may discover we have an original Nuremberg document here.”

Harvard’s
Widener Library lists all editions as fiction, and mentions the change in the title from
“Schindler’s Ark” to “Schindler’s
List” in the American Edition:

AUTHOR: Keneally, Thomas.
TITLE: [Schindler's
list.]
Schindler's ark / Thomas
Keneally.
PUB.

INFO: London : Hodder and
Stoughton, c1982 (1983 printing)

DESCRIPTION: 432 p. ; 23 cm.
NOTES: American ed.

published under
title: Schindler's list.

SUBJECTS: *S1 Schindler, Oskar,
1908-1974--Fiction.
*S2 Holocaust, Jewish
(1939-1945)--Fiction.
*S3 World War,
1939-1945--Fiction.
AUTHORS: *A1 Keneally,
Thomas.
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC PR9619.3.K46
S3x 1983b

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