"Americanization" of the holocaust

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Suggests that the Holocaust has become a negative "substitute religion" for American Jews. Claims that Israel is the only country, apart from the former German Democratic Republic, which based its very statehood, its legitimization as a state, on the Holocaust. The basic criticism of Holocaust memorials by American Jews is that they exploit the Holocaust for Zionistic purposes. States that today, almost every major American city has at least one, if not several, memorials to the Holocaust. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)