In the following excerpt, Rapaport compares Spielberg's movie version of Schindler's List to Keneally's text and investigates the dramatization and marketing of the Holocaust in popular culture.
One day in 1980, a well-known Australian writer, Thomas Keneally, visited a leather goods store in Beverly Hills, California, to inquire about briefcases. Amidst the shelves of imported Italian leather goods, Keneally met the store owner, Leopold Pfefferberg, who goes by the nickname "Poldek." He is a Czech Jew who, after the war, changed his name to Leopold Page. He asked Keneally what he did for a living.
"A writer," replied Keneally.
"A good one?" asked Poldek.
"Some think so," he answered. "In any case I make a living out of it."
"Then I have a story for you for the theme of a book," said Poldek. It was.....
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