''Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide'' is a 1995 book about the

Holocaust uniqueness debate The assertion that the Holocaust was a unique event was important to the historiography of the Holocaust, but has come under increasing challenge in the twenty-first century. Related claims include that the Holocaust is external to history, beyond ...

, edited by Alan Rosenbaum. In the book, scholars compare

the Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

to other well-known instances of

genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Lat ...

and mass death. The book asks whether there are any historical parallels to the Jewish Holocaust and whether

Armenians Armenians ( hy, հայեր, '' hayer'' ) are an ethnic group native to the Armenian highlands of Western Asia. Armenians constitute the main population of Armenia and the ''de facto'' independent Artsakh. There is a wide-ranging diasp ...

Romani people The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with sig ...

, American Indians, or others have undergone a comparable genocide. As Alan Rosenbaum stated in regards to the book: A second edition was printed in 2000 and a third edition was released in 2009. Official sponsor of Westview Press book sales.

* ''The ethics of uniqueness'' by John K. Roth * ''Religion and the uniqueness of the Holocaust'' by Richard L. Rubenstein * ''From the Holocaust: some legal and moral implications'' by Richard J. Goldstone * ''The uniqueness of the Holocaust: the historical dimension'' by

Steven T. Katz Steven Theodore Katz (born August 24, 1944) is an American philosopher and scholar. He is the founding director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University in Massachusetts, United States, where he holds the Alvin J. and Shir ...

* ''Responses to the Porrajmos: the Romani Holocaust'' by

Ian Hancock Ian Francis Hancock ( Romani: Yanko le Redžosko; born 29 August 1942) is a linguist, Romani scholar and political advocate. He was born and raised in England and is one of the main contributors in the field of Romani studies. He is director ...

* ''The Atlantic slave trade and the Holocaust: a comparative analysis'' by

Seymour Drescher Seymour Drescher (born 1934) is an American historian and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and slavery and his published work ''Econocide''. Career Seymour Drescher has been publishin ...

* ''The Armenian genocide as precursor and prototype of twentieth-century genocide'' by Robert F. Melson * ''The comparative aspects of the Armenian and Jewish cases of genocide: a sociohistorical perspective'' by Vahakn N. Dadrian * ''Stalinist terror and the question of genocide: the great famine'' by Barbara B. Green * ''The Holocaust and the Japanese atrocities'' by Kinue Tokudome * ''Applying the lessons of the Holocaust'' by Shimon Samuels * ''The rise and fall of metaphor: German historians and the uniqueness of the Holocaust'' by Wulf Kansteiner * ''Uniqueness as denial: the politics of genocide scholarship'' by David E. Stannard

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