Word: finkelstein
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...Nation on Trial evolved from two articles published in British journals earlier this year. The first was written by Ruth Bettina Birn, the chief historian of the Canadian Justice Department's War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Section. The second was the work of Norman G. Finkelstein, a professor of general studies at New York University and adjunct associate professor of political science at Hunter College...
...Birn and Finkelstein could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Goldhagen emphatically denied that he is planning any lawsuit, and has instead written several pieces attacking the quality of both Birn's and Finkelstein's scholarship...
...Finkelstein's 50 page piece, which appeared in the July-August issue of New Left Review, another British publication, alleges that Goldhagen's book "is not scholarship at all," and is rife with "glaring internal contradictions...
...broad range of solid scholarly research has concluded that popular German anti-Semitism neither accounted for Hitler's triumph nor was it the impetus behind the Final Solution," writes Finkelstein, who is the son of Holocaust survivors...