Nation Topics - John Roth | The Nation

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum manages to do justice to the memory of the Shoah's victims for the mass of its 2 million annual visitors, as it simultaneously upholds strict scholarly standards in examining the morally troubling and intellectually complex problems that the study of the Holocaust raises. The museum's commitment to academic integrity is now under siege. The political censors' target is a mild-mannered Christian Holocaust scholar named John Roth. Roth was chosen by a scholarly search committee to become the first director of the museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.