I remember hearing an account of a Holocaust denier who had set out to disprove the existence of the death camps via solid scholarship and hard evidence. In the course of this work, the story goes, he ended up convincing himself of the case and published an elaborate, multivolume encyclopedia on the subject. The only other item I think I remember is that the researcher was French. Perhaps this account will trigger a memory for another AJL member who can help pin-point the resulting text.
The problem with this inquiry is that Jews are sneaky and may hide their identity. How do you know when an apparently non-Jewish author isn't really a secret Jew? We've even learned that some Jews didn't know they are Jews, only learning about their background years later when it is too late to discredit their work. The credibility of a work isn't supposed to depend on genetics or religious affiliation. If the work is backed by solid evidence, you should credit it no matter who the author is (and vice versa). -- Lee Jaffe --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
