Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Routledge Warren B.
Title : Elie Wiesel Saint of the holocaust A critical biography
Year : 2015

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Introduction. The present study seeks to accomplish several goals simultaneously. Written both for non-revisionists interested in learning more about Holocaust revisionism and its relationship to the Jewish Holocaust Story of World War II, as well as revisionists of various information levels, the work does not presume any prior knowledge. Its first objective is to provide the reader with a general, introductory overview of the revisionist movement, including its main arguments, key players, and historiographical achievements. The study covers the period from the 1960s to the year 2010, and its purpose is not only to bring forth new revisionist arguments and information, but also to summarize and contextualize the accomplishments of the leading revisionist scholars. The terminus date of 2010 was selected because the close of the first decade of the twenty-first century corresponds roughly to a half-century of revisionist activity. The book’s second goal is to tell the story of the emergence and blossoming of Holocaust revisionism within the context of Elie Wiesel’s life and career. His name has become synonymous with the Holocaust, and not a few people have called him the “Holocaust High Priest.” Indeed, the vast majority of Holocaust devotees (both Jews and non-Jews) look upon him as a holy man of sorts, in part because of his supposedly miraculous survival at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, but also because of the key role he played in the founding of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. An additional benefit of this approach is that, by telling the revisionist story in the context of Wiesel’s career, I have been able to add the theme of “Catholic- Jewish Dialogue” to the mix. This is so because Wiesel’s greatest benefactor from the very beginning of his career was the French Catholic novelist, man of letters, and Nobel Prize winner François Mauriac (1885-1970). Mauriac “discovered” Wiesel, helped him to get his first book, the supposedly autobiographical La Nuit (1958), published in Paris, and wrote a flattering review of it when no one else seemed interested in it. He also had a very close personal attachment to Wiesel until his death in 1970. ...