Holocaust Denial and Libraries: Should Libraries Acquire Revisionist Materials?

Authors

John A. Drobnicki, CUNY York CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1999

Abstract

Historical revision is a valid practice whereby historians reinterpret the past from different viewpoints and in the light of new documents or research. Those who deny the Holocaust, however, call themselves "revisionists" in an attempt to gain scholarly legitimacy, trying to align themselves with the' historians of the 1920s and 1930s who reinterpreted the causes of the first World War. Should libraries acquire materials that deny the Holocaust, whether through purchase or donation?

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This work was originally published in College & Research Libraries News.