Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s Crazy Thesis

Goldhagen is to Holocaust scholarship what Elie Wiesel is to Holocaust memory. In a highly-praised memoir, All Rivers Run to the Sea, Wiesel reports, ‘I read The Critique of Pure Reason — don’t laugh — in Yiddish.’

Leaving aside Wiesel’s acknowledgement that at the time ‘I was wholly ignorant of Yiddish grammar,’ The Critique of Pure Reason was never translated into Yiddish.

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Norman Finkelstein
New Left Review, Summer 1997, No. 224