#I’m dosick

[anonymousdandelion]

I’m a prospective convert, and I’m currently reading Living Judaism by Rabbi Wayne Dosick, and so far this book has made my cry happy tears at least twice now, and within the first two chapters. Most recently, the end of the section on converts, wherein lies the quote, “Dearer to God is the proselyte who has come of his own accord than all the crowds of the Israelites who stood at Mt. Sinai. The Israelites witnessed the thunder, lightning, and quaking mountains, and the sound of trumpets. But the proselyte, who saw not one of these things, came and surrendered himself to God and took upon himself the yoke of Heaven. Can anyone be dearer to God?” It feels so welcoming already.

I hope you’re having a wonderful day, and thank you for being you. ❤️

Aww, thank you for the kind words — and thank you for sharing this! I haven't read the book, but that is a moving and beautiful quote.

I am always in awe at the strength and dedication it must take to join Am Yisrael, or even to consider doing so. Best of luck on your journey, wherever you may go. <3

[soyouwannaconverttojudaism]

Hello! I have a question if it isn't too much of a bother! I have no Jewish background, but I've been interested in learning more, specifically to do with the Torah. I'm an anthropology student, and very curious about understanding in more detail Judaism in general, so as to be more open and understanding. I want to be as respectful as possible, and wanted to know, is it alright for goyim to read the Torah? Thank you!

I mean, it’s certainly “alright,” but anthropologically speaking, I think it’s important to say that just reading the actual text of the Torah isn’t going to teach you a lot about modern Jewish life. Think of Torah as a historical, theological, teleological, philosophical, and cultural foundation, and of Judaism as the house built upon and around that foundation. A material, lived Judaism unfolds in our midrash - in the infinite body of text, still being written, where Jews both ancient and contemporary debate, discuss, analyze, extend, and make meaning from Torah. Traditionally, a minyan, a group of ten Jews, is required to study Torah.  (As @dafyomilimerick pointed out, this is indeed nothing! I think I got this notion from a Chabad rabbi I knew early in my conversion studies, but I misunderstood what he was trying to teach me about the use of a minyan. I want to emphasize that it’s always okay to fact check and correct me because I’ve put myself in a position, as a learner, of teaching other learners!) It’s not meant to be something we read in isolation and internalize as-is. If you read the Torah then you’ll have read the Torah, but that won’t teach you much about Judaism and about Jews. 

These are just a few books that I think would give you a better sense of the “spirit” of (some of) modern Judaism and how it derives its practices and wisdoms from antiquity:

Settings of Silver, by Stephen M. Wylen

Living Judaism, by Rabbi Wayne Dosick

Seek My Face, by Arthur Green

I and Thou and On Judaism, by Martin Buber

The Sabbath, by Joshua Abraham Heschel

The Story of the Jews, by Simon Schama

Judaism’s 10 Best Ideas, by Arthur Green

Really any book of Torah commentary - I read Aviva Zornberg, but she’s very tough

Standing Again at Sinai, ed. Judith Plaskow (dated but still good)

Balancing on the Mechitza, ed. Noach Dzmura (this one’s specifically about being trans and Jewish, but really there’s no corner of Jewish life it doesn’t touch upon in some way)

These are just picks out of my library, and I’m sure you’ll notice that it’s sorely lacking representation from Jewish women scholars, but any one of them is going to give you a more robust engagement with Judaism than just reading the Torah word for word without any kind of teaching or context. 

If you are going to read Torah, at least read an annotated edition that has essays commenting on each parsha (Torah portion). JPS is one of the go-to publishers of annotated Torah. There are tons of translations of Torah and a lot of those translations come with notes and comments from their translators. 

[midshipmank]

I was tagged by @peppermintfeminist thank you so much!!

Rules: tag several people

Top 3 ships: Malec, obviously, then First Prince probably, and ??? It kind of changes, but maybe Spirk or Enjoltaire

Lipstick or chapstick: I wear both only occassionally, but probably lipstick (in unusual colors)

Last song: the entirety of Hamilton? Just saw the SF production last night. So “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” I guess

Last movie: I watch so much more tv than movies that I actually think the answer to this is Rise of Skywalker, which is sort of horrifying

Reading: Oof, so many things. Rereading City of Glass, listening to Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh, and rereading Howl’s Moving Castle. In the background, I’m also slowly making my way through the same nonfiction I’ve been reading for months: Essential Judaism by George Robinson, How to Read the Jewish Bible by Marc Zvi Brettler, Living Judaism by Rabbi Wayne Dosick, and Broke Millennial by Erin Lowry

Watching: Game of Thrones. Yeah, finally hoped on that bandwagon after it ended. I’m also somewhere in the middle of His Dark Materials, Mindhunter, and The Politician

Tagging: @fantasiavii @blue-alongside-red @fishfacethegrand

[batventz]

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[baldursgatekeeper]

Hello! So I thought I'd do this in ask form so it could be a potential resource for other people as well. You post a variety of Judaism related books. Do you have any recommendations for someone thinking about/trying to convert who's sort of overwhelmed by how much is out there (*cough*me*cough*). Books that are good introductions to different aspects of the faith?

Absolutely, what a great question! One of my favourite ones to talk about. Where I’ve written a reflection on my blog about a book listed I’ve linked it in the title of the book. The books I’ve covered here are mainly ‘introduction to Judaism’ type books as that’s always a good place to start your reading, with a couple of other types thrown in.

Jewish Literacy by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin: A really excellent introduction to Judaism that covers in an accessible and readable style the basics of Judaism, from topics including prayer, holidays, life cycle events, the Torah, other Jewish texts, and history. It’s written in an encyclopedic style with short sections on each topic, so you don’t have to read it cover to cover (it’s a hefty book) if that’s too daunting, but can jump from topic to topic and look things up easily for later reference.

Essential Judaism by George Robinson: Another hefty introductory tome like Jewish Literacy, but one I think is worth reading as well as it comes form a different perspective. While Jewish Literacy is written by an eminent rabbi, Essential Judaism is written by a layman who had a nominal Jewish upbringing but drifted away from the religion over the years only to rediscover it as an adult. While very informative, it can also be entertaining and sometimes humorous, and I think is a good book for converts to read because they may be able to relate to Robinson’s somewhat-of-an-outsider-looking-in perspective.

To Life! by Harold S. Kushner: A classic of the introduction to Judaism genre, this book isn’t so much a dry run-down of all the ritual, cultural, historical etc. aspects of Judaism, but a celebration of how to find joy and meaning in various aspects of Jewish life. I found it really spiritually meaningful and am looking forward to reading more books by Kushner, such as his work When Bad Things Happen to Good People, which explores the problem of an all-powerful, benevolent G?d allowing evil and suffering to exist.

The Story of the Jews (Pts. 1 & 2 [link on the 2], a 3rd coming) by Simon Schama: The first book of this series is one of my favourite books. It covers Jewish history from its inception to the Spanish expulsion of 1492 and is able to blend a sweeping historical narrative with intimate portraits of individual historical figures. The second book continues the narrative up to 1900, and the third, yet to be released, book rounds out the story to the present day.

Being Jewish by Ari Goldman: Another favourite book of mine, this one covers basic Jewish practices as they are expressed in contemporary times (although the book was published almost 20 years ago now). What really makes it stand out is Goldman’s (an Orthodox rabbi) commitment to pluralism, celebrating the unique things that every branch of Judaism brings to the table, as well as the little personal stories about individual’s and families’ idiosyncratic practices scattered throughout the book.

To Be a Jew by Hayim Halevy Donin: This book is good if you’re after an overview of the Orthodox perspective. It’s a classic of the intro to Judaism genre published in the 1970s and sometimes it’s archaic social attitudes show through in (albeit rare) offhand remarks about social issues, and it’s avowedly not pluralistic in that it treats other branches of Judaism as religiously inauthentic. I still recommend it if you can look past those issues and just read it for the interesting and quite detailed information about Orthodox practice.

On Being Jewish by Julia Neuberger: This is a very different book from To Be a Jew, as it’s written by a Progressive, female, feminist rabbi who talks at length on social issues and egalitarianism in the Jewish community and faith. While this book was published in the mid 1990s, Neuberger’s progressive values shine through, putting forth some opinions that were quite ahead of Jewish and mainstream thought at the time of the book’s writing.

A Guide to Jewish Prayer by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz: This one is a little more dense and intermediate, and might be one you want to dip in and out of to look up various topics (as it was designed to be read this way). It’s a very detailed look at Orthodox Jewish prayer, with a better balance of coverage on Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and other rites from around the world than most books seem to have.

The books listed above are all ones I’ve personally read and would recommend, but there’s also a few I haven’t read myself but have been recommended by others (either by people I know, or they’re just popular/classic books):

Choosing a Jewish Life by Anita Diamant: A guide to converting to Judaism from a Progressive/Reform perspective, a very popular book.

Living a Jewish Life by Anita Diamant: A guide to putting Judaism into practice in your own life, written from a Progressive/Reform perspective again.

Standing Again at Sinai by Judith Plaskow: A feminist critique of the patriarchal structures of Judaism. I’m very keen to read this one in the future.

Living Judaism by Rabbi Wayne Dosick: A wide ranging and pluralistic introduction to Judaism that incorporates a diversity of traditions.

These are all the books I can think of off the top of my head, there are surely many more out there (which as you said is partly why it’s so difficult to figure out what to read). I hope this list wasn’t either too long or too short, and if anyone else has any books they’d recommend, feel free to add them to the list!

[mortifyd]

Yom Kippur

And I’m listening to services in another window and drinking Diet Pepsi. I just... can’t this year. And while I feel like I should feel guilty - I don’t. And I don���t know how I feel about that.

I’ve been under quarantine for the last 2 weeks since Roomie caught covid, but I didn’t get it. I’ve been under the weather for the time I’ve been at home (yet another ear infection) but I’m pretty sure I dodged a bullet - no fever, no loss of taste or smell, just general malaise and sleeping a lot. I’m on antibiotics for the ear infection, and I’m going to try and get an appointment for Tuesday to see if I can get something that might actually knock this infection out.

But back to Yom Kippur. I don’t fast for health reasons to begin with, though I don’t stuff my face either. But I feel like I’m drifting Jewishly.  My conversion *still* isn’t over, though that should be remedied in the next month or so - all that is left is the meeting with the rabbinical court and my immersion, but with the ritual baths closed since covid started it’s been up in the air. And somehow, I don’t think dipping in gross marina water is really going to feel profound in any sort of way. (That’s the plan, immerse in a marina in New Orleans, so dirty diesel water - but it’s oddly fitting given my life on a boat for so many years.)

I’m reading a book about Jewish belief and life Living Judaism - by Rabbi Wayne Dosick. It’s been an interesting read.  We used it in a class this summer over Zoom and I read the excerpts for the class, but I didn’t just sit down and read the book. I’m glad that I am now. I was taught so many things when I was super religious that were just not true, that I’m still trying to find a balance between what I was told I should do and the fairly laid back position by my own rabbi - basically I’m Jewish enough that the conversion should be finished ASAP. And I do *feel* Jewish, but 20+ years of orthodoxy will do that to you. But I’m still not sure what I actually *believe* and how it should affect my practice. Sure, I keep kosher, and I generally avoid overt use of the computer on most holidays and Shabbosim - tonight is obviously not one of those nights, but I tell myself it’s a work in progress.

But there are so many things that are problematic in Torah, sexism, slavery, double crosses, deceit, people just in general being shitty while they are proclaimed “holy” - that I struggle with how to reconcile my love of Jewish culture and life with those problematic issues. I moved to an egalitarian movement that is pro LGBTQIA, jettisoning the struggles I had with orthodoxy, but there is still a hole in my heart that I don’t know a meeting with some rabbis and a dunk in a marina will fix.

I envy those people who can just *believe* without struggle. Who never have a doubt, or question the nature of things. I wrestle with everything. While I do more here at my new place than I did at home - I don’t think I will ever be where I was. I wonder if I will ever reach a place where I feel ok about where I am and what I do. That’s probably a topic for therapy this week.

So, yeah. Same shit, different holiday. May we all be sealed in the Book of Life for another year, and trump goes down in a ball of flames. I’m a bad Jew, but a good person, and that counts for something, right?

[becoming-shoshana]

Returning to G_d

More than two years ago, in 2015, I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial. It was shortly after I went to my very first Shabbat service. My interest in converting to Judaism was pretty new so this trip to the place that became the synonym for the Shoah was not easy for me. I went there with a larger group of several hundred people, among them a delegation from Israel. A cantor sung “El Maleh Rachamim” in remembrance of the Jewish people who perished in the Shoah. It was a cloudy day. But as soon as he started singing, the clouds literally opened behind him and the sun was shining through. I remember this moment so vividly because it was the first time when I actually thought of something as a sign from G_d. At that moment I stopped believing that everything outside of human influence was a coincidence.

After I’ve been rejected by a rabbi simply for the fact that I’m trans I had a deep spiritual crisis. I doubted everything. Wouldn’t it have been for my mental illness I might have just kept going. But I couldn’t. That day my heart broke and I’m still recovering. Being rejected for who I am did hurt me deeply. I stopped saying Shema, I stopped going to synagogue, I stopped reading Torah, I stopped learning about Judaism. My conversion was on a hiatus. The only Jewish things I did during the last months was celebrating Shabbat with a Jewish friend of mine and going to Shul with her once. But that was it. I was disencouraged, angry, sad, disappointed. And I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to get back on the way. But I did.

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish year. I wasn’t able to observe Yom Kippur in the last two years. I didn’t feel mentally stable enough to fast and I didn’t really know anything about the long service at synagogue so I only went to the Erev Yom Kippur service in 5776. Last year I did nothing but watch a live stream of an Erev Yom Kippur service in the US. But this year was different. I’m not sure why but I was drawn back to observance.

One main theme of Yom Kippur is teshuvah. It literally means “return” and is often translated as “repentance”. But that’s an inaccurate translation. Let me quote Rabbi Wayne D. Dosick from his book “Living Judaism”:

»Judaism has no word for sin. […] Judaism has the concept of חטא chet. Although it is sometimes conveniently but incorrectly translated as sin, chet means to ›miss the mark‹ – to be heading for the ›bull’s-eye‹ of moral and ethical behavior but to veer off course, to make a mistake. The Jewish ›bull’s-eye‹ is the proper observance of the mitzvot – the ethical and ritual commands of God. So chet means to ›transgress the mitzvot‹ , to fail to correctly or completely fulfill God’s precepts and commandments. The Hebrew word for repentance is תשובה t’shuvah, which means ›to return‹ – to come back to the path leading to the ›bull’s-eye‹ of following God’s commands.« 

I, too, veered off course. But on Yom Kippur I came back to the path, I did teshuvah. I returned: by fasting (for the first time in my life) for 26 hours, by going to synagogue as long as I physically and mentally could and by digging up my love for Judaism and my will to become a member of the tribe. And I think of this as a sign from G_d: coming back to Judaism on Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish festival, a day when the Children of Israel unite in prayer and teshuvah.

I’m very excited for the upcoming festivals. I want to dwell in a Sukkah for the first time, and I hope to dance with the Torah on Simchat Torah. This will also be a good opportunity to start reading Torah again and to study its commentary. It feels good to return to the journey.

Blessed be You, Hashem, You give strength to the weary.

[keshetchai]

Do you have any suggestions for books about Judaism for people with minimal knowledge about religion in general? I'm a gentile, but as I have like, marginally more knowledge of Judaism than the average agnostic Xtian and I've been finding myself in situations where I'm educating my fellow gentiles, a task which I feel massively unqualified for. I'd like to learn more and shore up my knowledge, both for the above mentioned and because I'm interested in exploring my own faith.

> Obviously I know reaching out to a rabbi is ideal, but I'm not at that point yet and yeah. Sorry for the multi-messgae tldrIt's cool! It really depends on what you want, kinda? For Gentiles in general, something like the book "What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew About Judaism," by Robert Schoen is probably a good choice. It's really aimed towards those kinds of questions people might have. I'm not super familiar with it, but I've seen it around once or twice. BUT if you're not sure about this one, the Jewish Book of Why (usually found as volume one, there is a second book) by Alfred J. Kolatch is very good. I think the most popular book that Rabbis recommend to converts is "Essential Judaism" by George Robinson. It's a bit of a tome, but it covers a little bit of everything. So you can read it more encyclopedia like (same with the other highly recommended book Joseph Teluskhin's Jewish Literacy.) Some other (shorter) books: "Judaism's Ten Best Ideas," "To Life!: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking," (Kushner) or "Living Judaism," (Dosick), "Jews, God, and History." (Dimont).

[jatamansi-arc]

You wanna write about the Holocaust?

So, I got this wild idea while watching documentaries about the Holocaust tonight. Which, if you’ve been following for awhile, you’ve probably realized that Salome’s author (that would be me, lol) is a Holocaust historian. And you also probably know that I get very testy about portrayals of that narrative that romanticize the suffering of human beings (having lost my family in Stutthof and Majdanek, perhaps that’s equally unsurprising.)

This all lead me to an idea: make a post full of resources that benefit people trying to write a Holocaust narrative for legitimate purposes. If you’re are trying to have a kissypoo love story set in Auschwitz, though, please for the love of everything excuse yourself out of my post.

If you’re here because you are writing a character who has historical ties to that event, for one reason or another, or is the descendant of survivors? Well friend, YOU GON’ LEARN TODAY. And I mean, some of this is recycled from my list on Judaism-based resources, but I’m gonna get specific as fuck for y’all. 

First off, let’s get a couple important bits out of the way.

UPDATED: 3/13/2017

You don’t know about Judaism at all and don’t know where to start? 

The Jewish People: A Story of Survival (F)

Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs & Rituals, George Robinson

Living Judaism: The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice, Wayne D. Dosick

Judaism as a Civilization, Mordecai M. Kaplan 

Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought, David Biale

This may also be relevant to what you’re writing, if you’re writing descendants of survivors:

Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community, Noach Dzmura

Queer Jews, David Shneer 

Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism, Danya Ruttenberg

Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism, Tamar Ross

Jewish Way in Death and Mourning, Maurice Lamm

Are the Jewish people you writing Ashkenazi (European) in descent?

Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, Michael Wex

Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation, Paul Kriwaczek

Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism, Alain Brossat, Sylvie Klingberg

A History of Jewish Life from Eastern Europe to America, Milton Meltzer

A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel, Walter Laqueur

From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933, Jacob Katz

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg 

Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence in Modern Russian History, John Doyle Klier & Shlomo Lambroza 

Are they not?

Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora, Julia R. Lieberman

Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa, Emily Benichou Gottreich & Daniel J. Schroeter 

Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times, Zion Zohar

Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience, Jane S. Gerber 

The Beta Israel: Falasha in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century, Steven B. Kaplan

The Black Jews of Africa: History, Religion, Identity, Edith Bruder

The Jews of Islam, Bernard Lewis 

The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times, Norman A. Stillman

The Kaifeng Stone Inscriptions: The Legacy of the Jewish Community in Ancient China, Tiberiu Weisz 

Are you going to explore the idea of how the Nazis used scientific racism against the Jews in your work? Well, it started way before the Nazis, who imported it from the Americans and Europeans so get studyin’:

Scientific Racism: The Eugenics of Social Darwinism (F)

The Human Zoo: Science’s Dirty Secret (F)

Tomorrow's Children (F; 1934 film considered immoral in its time for protesting the eugenics movement in America)

Eugenics in History (F)

The Jews: a Study of Race and Environment, Maurice Fishberg (Published in the American magazine, Popular Science, c. 1906)

War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, Edwin Black

Eugenics, Irving Fisher (Published in 1913 as an introduction to the philosophy of the eugenics movement in America)

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Adam Cohen)

A Century of Eugenics in America: From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era

American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism, Nancy Ordover 

Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity, Harry Bruinius

The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism, Stefan Kuhl

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics, Alison Bashford, Philippa Levine 

Need a primer for what happened during the Holocaust? I tried to make these mostly film/talks, so that they are easily accessible.

The Nazis: A Warning From History (F)

Auschwitz: A New History, Laurence Rees 

Night Will Fall (F)

Engineering Evil: Inside the Holocaust (F)

‘Prostitution’ (Sexual Slavery) During the Holocaust (F)

Among the Righteous (F)

Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands, Robert Satloff

Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, Sonja M. Hedgepeth

The Deaf Holocaust: The Deaf and Nazi Germany (F)

Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust

Hidden Sorrows: Persecution of Roma during the Holocaust (F)

One Day in Auschwitz (F)

Science and the Swastika: The Deadly Experiment (F)

Science and the Swastika: Hitler’s Biological Soldiers (F)

Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans, Vivien Spitz

Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview: How the Nazi Eugenic Crusade for a Superior Race Caused the Greatest Holocaust in World History, Jerry Bergman

War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, Doris L. Bergen 

Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Yitzhak Arad

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Christopher R. Browning

Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, Jan T. Gross

The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders, Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, Volker Riess 

Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, Robert Jay Lifton

Then there’s the memoirs:

Night, Elie Wiesel

Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi

The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Art Spiegelman

Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy, Thomas Buergenthal

All But My Life: A Memoir, Gerda Weissmann Klein

I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust, Livia Bitton-Jackson

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, Wladyslaw Szpilman

There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok, Yaffa Eliach

Are you still thinking about making a love story or some other asinine plot set in the Holocaust narrative? Do you know that distorts the memory of my people’s worst atrocity? Maybe you should learn why pushing fictional stories that minimize the suffering endured by its victims is an horrendously bad idea:

The End of the Holocaust, Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (F)

Romanticism After Auschwitz, Sara Guyer

Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera’s Eye, Barbie Zelizer

Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial, Richard J. Evans

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Deborah E. Lipstadt

Beyond Belief: The American Press And The Coming Of The Holocaust, 1933- 1945, Deborah E. Lipstadt