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Rewriting the Holocaust Online: A Discourse Analysis of Holocaust Denial Web Sites

Agenda. Holocaust denial and librarianship. Conclusion and questions/comments. Description of M.A. thesis topic. Holocaust Denial within a Theoretical Perspective. Discursive Strategies used on Holocaust Denial web pages. Some sample texts. Methodology: Discourse Analysis. Thesis topic. Thesis questions:.

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Rewriting the Holocaust Online: A Discourse Analysis of Holocaust Denial Web Sites

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    1. Rewriting the Holocaust Online: A Discourse Analysis of Holocaust Denial Web Sites By: Mark Aaron Polger markaaronpolger@hotmail.com

    2. Agenda Holocaust denial and librarianship

    3. Thesis topic Thesis questions:

    4. Steps involved in my research Traced the history of Holocaust denial

    5. What is Holocaust denial?

    6. What is Holocaust Denial?

    7. What is Holocaust Denial? [2] Lipstadt, Deborah, Denying The Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Penguin Press, England, 1993, 278 p., p 124, 125

    8. Holocaust denial within a theoretical framework Critical Race Theory as my theoretical framework

    9. Holocaust denial within a theoretical framework Holocaust deniers argue that:

    10. Jews as the racial “Other” Jews were viewed as a separate race until they acquired money and became integrated into the “white” race.” After World War II, Jews became “white” through federal government polices that permitted them to be members of the white suburban middle class. Brodkin, Karen, How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America, Rutgers University Press, 2000, p. 21

    11. Jews as the racial “Other” Eric Goldstein:

    12. Jews as the racial “Other” Karl Kautsky:

    13. Jews as the racial “Other” Maurice Fishberg:

    14. History of Holocaust Denial 1) Provided an overview of Holocaust denial in selected countries from 1945 to the present

    15. Discourse Analysis What is discourse?

    16. Discourse Analysis What is Discourse Analysis?

    17. Discourse Analysis Oxford Dictionary of the Social Sciences:

    18. Discourse Analysis as a Method Applied content analysis, graphical analysis, and discourse analysis to two articles per web site

    19. Holocaust Denial: Discourse Strategies

    20. Holocaust Denial: Discourse Strategies

    21. Holocaust Denial: Discourse Strategies Holocaust Trivialization, a subtle form of anti-Semitism:

    22. Holocaust Denial: Discourse Strategies Jews as a Scapegoat:

    23. Jeffrey Katz: Holocaust Denial and Librarianship: Should we collect hate literature?

    24. Holocaust Denial and Librarianship: Should we collect hate literature? John Drobnicki:

    25. Betty Landesman Holocaust Denial and Librarianship: Information Management/Classification of Information

    26. Shane Borrowman Holocaust Denial and Librarianship: Evaluation of Web Resources

    27. Sample graphics

    28. Sample graphics

    29. Sample graphics

    30. Sample textual passages “There’s no business like Shoah business”

    31. Sample textual passages The "Holocaust" has become a media religion, the last truly believed religion in the otherwise agnostic West. It is a civic religion, one of the aims of which is to replace the crucifixion of Christ at Calvary with the experience of the Jews at Auschwitz, as the central ontological event of Western history.

    32. Sample textual passages

    33. Supplemental Graphics used in article entitled “Human Soap- American Style”

    34. Conclusion

    35. Questions?

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