The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering is a 2000 book by Norman G. Finkelstein that argues that the American Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for political and financial gain, as well as to further the interests of Israel.

Hasia Diner has accused Peter Novick and Finkelstein of being " harsh critics of American Jewry from the left ," and challenges the notion reflected in their books that American Jews did not begin to commemorate the Holocaust until post 1967.

* The Holocaust in American Life

The group has been accused by American analysts of engaging in Holocaust denial.

* 1920 – James von Brunn, American author and murderer, committed the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting ( d. 2010 )

In the 1950s, " a spiritual and cultural revival washed over American Jewry " in response to the trauma of the Holocaust.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

According to David Stannard's American Holocaust, 50 % of African deaths occurred in Africa as a result of wars between native kingdoms, which produced the majority of slaves.

* American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants

In addition, Irving was influenced to embrace Holocaust denial by the American historian Arno J. Mayer's 1988 book Why Did the Heavens Not Darken ?, which did not deny the Holocaust, but claimed that most of those who died at Auschwitz were killed by disease ; Irving saw in Mayer's book an apparent confirmation of Leuchter's and Zündel's theories about no mass murder at Auschwitz.

Also working as expert witnesses were the American Holocaust historian Christopher Browning, the German historian Peter Longerich and the Dutch architectural expert Robert Jan van Pelt.

Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American drama film dealing with the Holocaust and the Post-World War II Nuremberg Trials.

At the time of the event, Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants stated that " Holocaust survivors view Jedwabne as a symbol of the widespread, but little acknowledged, collaboration by the local population in the countries occupied by the Nazis in the slaughter and the plunder of the Jews during World War II.

* Hiram Bingham IV, 1903 – 1988, American Vice Consul in Marseilles, France, during World War II ; rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Frederick " Fred " A. Leuchter, Jr. is an American Federal Court qualified expert in execution technology and author of forensic Holocaust denial material.

The American historian Sybil Milton wrote several articles arguing that the Porajmos deserved recognition as part of the Holocaust.

In addition, the mature Stingo digresses at length, both on his attitudes as a youth ( occasionally including his journal entries, particularly after sexual experiences ) as well as on the broader issues involving the American South and the Holocaust.

# American Gathering / Federation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

* Stannard, David E. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World.

* Two examples of prayers at American civil ceremonies ( National Civic Commemoration of Holocaust Days of Remembrance, and dedication of the United States Vietnam Veterans Memorial )

UBS's handling of these revelations were largely criticized and the bank received significant negative attention in the U. S. UBS came under significant pressure, particularly from American politicians, to compensate Holocaust survivors who were making claims against the bank.

* 1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician, scholar, and author

* 1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1931 – Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author

* 1938 – Stanley Fish, American theorist and scholar

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

A major modification to Noth's theory was made in 1973 by the American scholar Frank M. Cross, to the effect that two editions of the history could be distinguished, the first and more important from the court of king Josiah in the late 7th century, and the second Noth's 6th century Exilic history, and other scholars have detected many more authors / editors than either Noth or Cross allowed for.

* William Chomsky ( 1896 – 1977 ), American scholar of Hebrew

One scholar wrote about the detective novels of Tony Hillerman, set among the Native American population around New Mexico, " many American readers have probably gotten more insight into traditional Navajo culture from his detective stories than from any other recent books.

Ezra Abbot ( April 28, 1819, Jackson, Maine – March 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American biblical scholar.

However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation ( with Baptist scholar Horatio B. Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ( 1867-1870 ), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work.

Sharp also worked in America, recording the traditional songs of the Appalachian Mountains in 1916 – 1918 in collaboration with Maud Karpeles and Olive Dame Campbell and is considered the first major scholar covering American folk music.

Throughout the 1960s and early to mid-1970s, American scholar Bertrand Harris Bronson published an exhaustive, four-volume collection of the then-known variations of both the texts and tunes associated with what came to be known as the Child Canon.

Lomax was the first prominent scholar to study distinctly American folk music such as that of cowboys and southern blacks.

American scholar David Bordwell has spoken against many prominent developments film theory since the 1970s, i. e., he uses the humorously derogatory term " SLAB theory " to refer to film studies based on the ideas of Saussure, Lacan, Althusser, and / or Barthes.

* 1921 – Edward Seidensticker, American scholar ( d. 2007 )

Alongside with Carlyle the Great Man theory was supported by American scholar Frederick Adams Woods.

Rosemary Radford Ruether the American feminist scholar and theologian wrote a book called " Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing ".

* 1938 – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, American scholar and historian

* 1902 – E. A. Speiser, American biblical scholar ( d. 1965 )

* John H. Brown, American scholar of public diplomacy

Jacob Neusner ( born July 28, 1932 ) is an American academic scholar of Judaism who lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

An American scholar and government advisor, Doak Barnett, praised Ma Bufang's government as " one of the most efficient in China, and one of the most energetic.

* 1927 – Robert Bork, American legal scholar

* 1927 – Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar, and cleric ( d. 2007 )