Is the Holocaust Unique?


Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide is a 1995 book about the Holocaust uniqueness debate, edited by Alan Rosenbaum. In the book, scholars compare the Holocaust to other well-known instances of genocide and mass death. The book asks whether there are any historical parallels to the Jewish Holocaust and whether Armenians, Romani people, Native Americans, or others have undergone a comparable genocide.
As Alan Rosenbaum writes in regard to the book:
A second edition was printed in 2000 and a third edition was released in 2009.

Contents

The ethics of uniqueness by John K. RothReligion and the uniqueness of the Holocaust by Richard L. RubensteinFrom the Holocaust: some legal and moral implications by Richard J. GoldstoneThe uniqueness of the Holocaust: the historical dimension by Steven T. KatzResponses to the Porrajmos: the Romani Holocaust by Ian HancockThe Atlantic slave trade and the Holocaust: a comparative analysis by Seymour DrescherThe Armenian genocide as precursor and prototype of twentieth-century genocide by Robert F. MelsonThe comparative aspects of the Armenian and Jewish cases of genocide: a sociohistorical perspective by Vahakn N. DadrianStalinist terror and the question of genocide: the great famine by Barbara B. GreenThe Holocaust and the Japanese atrocities by Kinue TokudomeApplying the lessons of the Holocaust by Shimon SamuelsThe rise and fall of metaphor: German historians and the uniqueness of the Holocaust by Wulf KansteinerUniqueness as denial: the politics of genocide scholarship by David E. Stannard