Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide

"As a whole, the collection incorporates many of the principal ways contemporary scholars frame the issue of the Shoah's uniqueness, and the confrontational directness of some of their arguments can have a bracing effect on readers accustomed to the insufficiently examined consensus on this point of most Shoah studies....[T]he detailed descriptions of particular historical catastrophes, each horrific in its own way, are what prove most informative, not the comparisons of any of these to the Shoah. The mixture of careful research and passionate engagement in essays like Ian Hancock's account of the Nazi effort to exterminate the Romani, Robert F. Melson's and Vahakn Dadrian's separate pieces on the Armenian genocide, and Barbara Green's analysis of the Stalinist 'Great Famine' in the Ukraine succeeds in conveying a monstrous catalog of human brutality whose power to appall is neither diminished nor intensified by considerations of other attempts to perpetuate genocide."Rosenbaum, Alan S. is the author of 'Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide', published 2000 under ISBN 9780813336862 and ISBN 0813336864.