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Lecturer in Jewish Studies Erich Goldhagen's course, "Explaining the Holocaust and the Phenomenon of Genocide," was taken out of the Core because "it did not meet the specific guidelines of a Core course," Professor James Q. Wilson, chairman of the committee which recommended the move, said yesterday. "While the course was well taught and a very popular course on the Holocaust, it did not concentrate enough on social theory," Wilson said...
...committee was most concerned about the bias of the final exam and reading list towards the Jewish Holocaust, Goldhagen said Goldhagen said he defended his course to the committee by saying. "The emphasis on Nazi Germany is unavoidable because it's the best documented and analyzed case of genocide we have...
...byte," however you spelled it, had to do with food, not information. Freud was becoming an unsettling household word, although the U.S. was not yet his colony. Hitler was still widely regarded as a hysterical Munich beer-hall brawler who could have benefited from Freud's treatment. In headlines "holocaust" was only a word for a large fire. Japan's chief export was raw silk. The jet set did not yet exist; its precursor, the smart set, took a week to cross the Atlantic. The juxtaposition of "man" and "moon" was strictly fantasy...
...object was to create something where nothing had been before, or at least not for many centuries. After the terrible revelations of the Nazi Holocaust, the impulse was to create, to will a Jewish state into being in the desert. The Zionist ideal, unfortunately, did not sufficiently reckon with the complexities of Middle Eastern life and politics. The European Jews arrived in Palestine, one writer said, as if they had come to colonize the moon. But the place was not untenanted, and all the history of Israel since its birth has been troubled by a 35-year war that, quite...
...premise of Ozick's new novel is the uneasy condition of the Jewish heritage in the prevailing Gentile culture, a subject that can be fully viewed only in the shadow cast by the Holocaust. The book's governing metaphor is the cannibal galaxy-in astronomy, one of the vast colonies of stars that devour smaller galaxies. The cannibal stands for Europe, devouring its Jewish citizens. Such out-of-the-way images spring naturally from Ozick's prodigious erudition. This novel, like her earlier short stories and novellas (The Pagan Rabbi, Levitation, Bloodshed), is dense with metaphor, often...