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May 14, 2019

An “Unmissable” Exhibit on Auschwitz Falls into the Familiar Trap of Universalizing the Holocaust

Oddly discomfited by the Jewish center of the story it tells, and overly content with contemporary platitudes.

To Edward Rothstein, Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away, which recently opened at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, is “unmissable,” thanks primarily to the hundreds of photographs and artifacts on display. But it also falls prey to the all-too-familiar tendency to turn the Holocaust into a “warning beacon”:

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May 14, 2019

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