
Shameless
Exploiting the Holocaust: Jewish Quarterly 261
Tanya Gold(Author)
Jewish Quarterly (Publisher)
Published on 21. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-1-76064-546-5 (ISBN)
Description
In novels, film and popular culture, the Holocaust genre is booming. Streaming hits and bestsellers are playing a vital role in shaping understandings of the past.
But, as Tanya Gold shows in this crucial essay, the creators of these works all too often engage in a crass and self-serving exercise in exploitation. In this new wave of Shoah blockbuster, the destruction of the Jews becomes a plot device or a ready-made backdrop - and the truths of history and of the dead are violated. The results, in many cases, are shameful fictions that desecrate the past and misrepresent the Jewish people of today.
Shameless is a moral wake-up call: it shows that there are some artists who treat the Holocaust honestly, and they disgrace those who do not.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
132 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-76064-546-5 (9781760645465)
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Tanya Gold is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's, the Spectator, the New Statesman and the New York Times. She lives in the UK.