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Editors ▪ December 30, 2020 Cover illustrations by John Michael Snowden and Molly Crabapple
We wanted to share some of our favorite articles from
Dissent in 2020.
In our first print issue this year, Democracy and Barbarism, Jedediah Britton-Purdy wove together the crises that had roiled American society long before the coronavirus, both in an article on carbon democracy cowritten with Alyssa Battistoni and a searching discussion with Aziz Rana. Our spring issue featured a section on the contemporary right, brought to you by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell of the
Know Your Enemy podcast and historian Lauren Stokes, that featured an insightful forum of ex-conservatives. Our summer issue combined analysis of the pandemic and a crucial U.S. election year. And our fall issue, Technology and the Crisis of Work, featured a collection of timely socialist-feminist essays guest edited by Katrina Forrester and Moira Weigel, including essays about the
Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17.1 (2003) 62-88
The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945-1960
San Diego State University
Abstract: Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans
awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate
representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in
significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts,
the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet
totalitarianism, Christian and Jewish theological reflections, pioneering
scholarly publications, and mass-media portrayals. These early postwar
attempts to comprehend the Jewish tragedy within prevailing cultural
paradigms provided the foundation for subsequent understandings of
that event.
Between the end of the war and the 1960s, as anyone who has lived
New York Trilogy in three separate volumes, Laurie Colwin’s
Happy All the Time, Barry Hannah’s
Ray, Robb Forman Dew’s
Dale Loves Sophie to Death (which won a National Book Award), Tim O’Brien’s
The Things They Carried, Grace Paley’s
Later the Same Day, Larry Heinemann’s
Paco’s Story (another NBA winner), Frederick Barthelme’s
Moon Deluxe, Frank Conroy’s
Midair, Pete Dexter’s
You Bright and Risen Angels, Ivan Doig’s
English Creek, and Wallace Stegner’s
Crossing to Safety.
As is so often the case, editorial passion conquered timid conventional wisdom, and literature was born.
Book Review: “From Left to Right” The Story of Holocaust Historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz By Helen Epstein Posted By Ruth King on December 10th, 2020
This biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz performs the invaluable function of gathering relevant documents and drafting a narrative that rescues a fascinating historian from oblivion. But it does not add much to the history of the New York intellectuals.
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History by Nancy Sinkoff. Wayne State University Press, 538 pp., $34.99.
There were several reasons I wanted to read a biography of historian and public intellectual Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990). First,