Alex Grobman is an American historian.Holocaust revisionism deconstructed
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Biography

Grobman grew up in

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, the son of a pharmacist and a synagogue secretary. He earned his PhD at the

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. Grobman's book ''Denying History'' has been described as serving to "remind us the past is not entirely negotiable" that, "Good historians can uncover and explain the past with provisional certainty - if they account for personal and cultural bias, and that it can be established beyond any reasonable doubt that the

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was real. According to CNN ". . . Shermer and Grobman do more than just refute ridiculous allegations. They also use the example of Holocaust denial literature to examine free speech issues, the psychology of right-wing extremists, and the role of biases in historical research." Grobman is

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Books

*''Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry, 1944-1948.'' 1993 *'' Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened, and Why Do They Say It?'', with Michael Shermer, 2000 *''Battling For Souls: The Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee in Post-War Europe,'' 2004 *''Nations United: How The UN Undermines Israel and the West'' 2006 *''The Palestinian Right to Israel,'' 2010

References

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