{"description":"In novels, film and popular culture, the Holocaust genre is booming. Streaming hits and bestsellers play a vital role in shaping understandings of the past.\n\nBut, as Tanya Gold shows in the latest groundbreaking essay for the Jewish Quarterly, the creators of these works all too often engage in a crass and self-serving exercise in exploitation. In this new wave of Shoah blockbuster, the destruction of the Jews becomes a plot device or a ready-made backdrop \u2013 and the truths of history and of the dead are violated. The results, in many cases, are shameful fictions that desecrate the past and misrepresent the Jewish people of today.\n\nShameless\u00a0is a moral wake-up call: it shows that there are some artists who treat the Holocaust honestly, and they disgrace those who do not. Tanya will be in conversation with writer and singer,\u00a0Mark Glanville.","height":720,"html":"<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe src=\"https://skiv.com/embed/YNsyeQt\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"fullscreen\" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>","provider_name":"Skiv","provider_url":"https://skiv.com","thumbnail_height":198,"thumbnail_url":"https://cdn.skiv.com/u/MkG8VMM/f13b90461fe6251ae81295bbc8f1017ff0b16724de9f557658125d61c11fae7c/thumbnails/thumbnail.jpg","thumbnail_width":352,"title":"Shameless: Exploiting the Holocaust","type":"video","url":"https://skiv.com/v/YNsyeQt","version":"1.0","width":1280}