A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France

by Samuel Moyn

How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past? These questions are at the heart of this unique investigation of the Treblinka affair that occurred in France in 1966 when Jean-Francois Steiner, a young Jewish journalist, published Treblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp. A cross between a history and a novel, Steiner's book narrated the 1943...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584655097
• ISBN13: 9781584655091
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"