Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide is a 1995 book about the Holocaust uniqueness debate, edited by Alan Rosenbaum. In the book, scholars compare the Holocaust to other well-known instances of genocide and mass death. The book asks whether there are any historical parallels to the Jewish Holocaust and whether Armenians, Romani people, Native Americans, or others have undergone a comparable genocide.
As Alan Rosenbaum writes in regard to the book:
A second edition was printed in 2000 and a third edition was released in 2009. Official sponsor of Westview Press book sales.
Contents The ethics of uniqueness by John K. Roth Religion and the uniqueness of the Holocaust by Richard L. Rubenstein From the Holocaust: some legal and moral implications by Richard J. Goldstone The uniqueness of the Holocaust: the historical dimension by Steven T. Katz Responses to the Porrajmos: the Romani Holocaust by Ian Hancock The Atlantic slave trade and the Holocaust: a comparative analysis by Seymour Drescher The Armenian genocide as precursor and prototype of twentieth-century genocide by Robert F. Melson The comparative aspects of the Armenian and Jewish cases of genocide: a sociohistorical perspective by Vahakn N. Dadrian Stalinist terror and the question of genocide: the great famine by Barbara B. Green The Holocaust and the Japanese atrocities by Kinue Tokudome Applying the lessons of the Holocaust by Shimon Samuels The rise and fall of metaphor: German historians and the uniqueness of the Holocaust by Wulf Kansteiner Uniqueness as denial: the politics of genocide scholarship by David E. Stannard
See also Historic recurrence Holocaust trivialization Historikerstreit
Notes
External links (3rd edition; 2018)