Revisionism is not about Jews or the Jewish religion. It just happens to deal with an aspect of history in which Jews play a major role. Hence it is inevitable that Jewish topics are raised on occasion, and we aren’t going to avoid them here either.
By Robert John ∙ March 1, 1993
Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, by Issa Nakhleh. New York: Intercontinental Books, 1991. Hardcover. Two volumes (8½ × 11 inch format). 1,180 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ISBN 096228811X. (Available from the IHR: $69, plus $5 shipping.) Robert John is a diplomatic historian and policy analyst. He is co-author of The Palestine Diary (New…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1993
President Bill Clinton and other major political figures are expected to attend the formal dedication ceremony of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 22 in Washington, DC. Journalists and television crews from across the United States and many foreign countries will also be present at the ceremony, which coincides with the 50th anniversary…
By Mark Weber ∙ January 1, 1993
After several delays, the largest and costliest Holocaust Museum anywhere is finally scheduled to open in Washington, DC, in April 1993. The “United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” will be formally dedicated on April 22, and will open to the public on April 26. Major political figures will att the formal dedication ceremony. President Bill Clinton…
By Robert H. Countess ∙ July 1, 1992
Beyond Innocence and Redemption: Confronting the Holocaust and Israeli Power, by Marc H. Ellis. New York: Harper & Row (Harper Collins), 1990. Softcover. 205 pages. Bibliography. Endnotes. Index. $13.00. ISBN: 0 06 062215 6. Many years before the recent, dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist ideology on which it was based had already…
By John Cobden ∙ April 1, 1992
Chutzpah, by Alan M. Dershowitz. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. Clothbound, 378 pages, $22.95, ISBN 0-316-18137-4. Reviewed by John Cobden “I admit that my wife is outspoken, ” the genial Jewish comedian Sam Levenson used to say, “but by whom?” Levenson no doubt was unacquainted with Alan M. Dershowitz, the Harvard University law professor, columnist and…
By Carl Hottelet ∙ December 1, 1991
The following letter was written to the editor of the Asbury Park Press on August 20, 1991. As an answer to the question posed in the above title, it would be difficult to better. A 14-line single-column item inserted inconspicuously into an inside page of your July 7, 1991 issue revealed to attentive readers that…
By Reuben Clarence Lang ∙ October 1, 1991
What is the driving conviction behind holocaust revisionism? One answer might be that historical truths cannot be decided in or by the courts, for ultimately there can be no historical scholarship without freedom of research and expression. Yet, up to now the Holocaust propagandists have used the courts on a broad scale to becloud this…
By Frederick Kerr ∙ October 1, 1991
Nationalism & Antisemitism in Modern Europe 1815-1945, by Shmuel Almog. Translated from the Hebrew by Ralph Mendel. Oxford, New York, et al: Pergamon Press, 1990, 160 pp., illustrated, $56.00; ISBN 0-08-037254-6 Hardcover; ISBN 0-08-037774-2 Paperback. The addition of “Holocaust Studies” to school curriculum has emerged as a growth industry in American education. Courses are being…
By Ivor Benson ∙ October 1, 1990
While all are agreed that the overthrow of the Russian Empire in 1917 was one of the most important happenings in recorded history, honest attempts to find out exactly what did happen, how it was planned and carried out, have always been attended by difficulty and danger. In the Soviet Union the propagation of any…
By A. Dibert ∙ July 1, 1990
“What do you mean, our established religion? We have no established religion in this country. Our constitution forbids any such thing. Look, it says right here in the First Amendment, right at the very beginning: ‘Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise of religion.' It is contrary…
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