The Americanization of the Holocaust / edited by Hilene Flanzbaum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The imaginary Jew and the American poet / Hilene Flanzbaum -- Aliens in the wasteland : American encounters with the Holocaust on 1960s science fiction television / Jeffrey Shandler -- Imagining survivors : testimony and the rise of Holocaust consciousness / Henry Greenspan -- America's Holocaust : memory and the politics of identity / James E. Young -- Inheriting the Holocaust : Jewish American fiction and the double bind of the second-generation survivor / Andrew Furman -- Surviving Rego Park : Holocaust theory from Art Spiegelman to Berel Lang / Amy Hungerford -- "Three thousand miles away" : the Holocaust in recent works for the American theater / Joyce Antler -- The cinematic triangulation of Jewish American identity : Israel, America, and the Holocaust / Sara R. Horowitz -- Reflections on the Holocaust from Nebraska / Alan E. Steinweis -- "You who never was there" : slavery and the new historicism- deconstruction and the Holocaust / Walter Benn Michaels -- Suffering as a moral beacon : Blacks and Jews / Laurence Mordekhai Thomas -- Play will make you free : reprising The triumph of the will in Chicago's Nike town / Andrew Levy.