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in Nation (22 March 1986).
    2 Rochelle G. Saidel, Never Too Late to Remember (New York 1996),32.
    3 Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, revised and enlarged
    edition (New York: 1965), 282. The situation in Germany wasn't much different. For example,
    Joachim Fest's justly admired biography of Hitler, published in Germany in 1973, devotes just four of
    750 pages to the extermination of the Jews and a mere paragraph to Auschwitz and other death camps.
    Joachim C. Fest, Hitler [New York: 1975], 679-82)
    4 Raul Hilberg, The Politics of Memory (Chicago: 1996), 66, 105 - 37. As with scholarship, the
    quality of the few films on the Nazi holocaust was, however, quite impressive. Amazingly, Stanley
    Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961 ) explicitly refers to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell
    Holmes's 1927 decision sanctioning sterilization of the "mentally unfit" as a precursor of Nazi
    eugenics programs; Winston Churchill's praise for Hitler as late as 1938; the arming of Hitler by
    profiteering American industrialists; and the opportunist postwar acquittal of German industrialists by
    the American military tribunal.
    5 Nathan Glazer, American Judaism (Chicago: 1957), 114. Stephen J. Whitfield, "The Holocaust and
    the American Jewish Intellectual," in Judaism (Fall 1979)
    6 For sensitive commentary on these two contrasting types of survivor, see Primo Levi, The
    Reawakening, with a new afterword (New York: 1986),207
    7 In this text, Jewish elites designates individuals prominent in the organizational and cultural life of
    the mainstream Jewish community.
    8 Shlomo Shafir, Ambiguous Relations: The American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945
    (Detroit 1999), 88, 98, 100 - 1, 111, 113, 114, 177, 192, 215, 231,251.
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    9 Ibid., 98,106,123-37,205,215-16,249. Robert Warshaw, "The 'Idealism' of Julius and Ethel
    Rosenberg," in Commentary (November 1953). was it merely a coincidence that at the same time,
    mainstream Jewish organizations crucified Hannah Arendt for pointing up the collaboration of
    aggrandizing Jewish elites during the Nazi era? Recalling the perfidious role of the Jewish Council
    police force, Yitzhak Zuckerman, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, observed 'There weren't
    any 'decent' policemen because decent men took off the uniform and became simple Jews» (A Surplus
    of Memory [Oxford 1993], 244).
    10 Novick, The Holocaust, 98-100. In addition to the Cold war, other factors played an ancillary role
    in American Jewry's postwar downplaying of the Nazi holocaust ~ for example, fear of anti-Semitism,
    and the optimistic, assimilationist American ethos in the 1950s. Novick explores these matters in
    chapters 4-7 of The Holocaust.
    11 Apparently the only one denying this connection is Elie Wiesel, who claims that the emergence of
    The Holocaust m American Life was primarily his doing. (Saidel, Never Too Late, 33-4)
    12 Menahem Kaufman, An Ambiguous Partnership (Jerusalem 1991), 218, 276 - 7.
    13 Arthur Hertzberg, Jewish Polemics (New York: 1992), 33; although misleadingly apologetic, cf.
    Isaac Alteras, "Eisenhower, American Jewry, and Israel,» in American Jewish Archives (November
    1985), and Michael Reiner, "The Reaction of US Jewish Organizations to the Sinai Campaign and Its
    Aftermath," in Forum (winter 1980 - 1).
    14 Nathan Glazer, American Judaism (Chicago: 1957), 114. Glazer continued: "Israel has meant
    almost nothing for American Judaism [T]he idea that Israel could in any serious way affect Judaism in
    America is recognized as illusory" (115).
    15 Shafir, Ambiguous Relations, 222.
    16 See, for example, Alexander Bloom, Prodigal Sons (New York: 1986).
    17 Lucy Dawidowicz and Milton Himmelfarb (eds), Conference on Jewish Identity Here and Now
    (American Jewish Committee: 1967).
    18 After emigrating from Germany in 1933, Arendt