I'm pretty sure Thane Rosenbaum is the child of Holocaust survivors, which though not as difficult as being a survivor was for many people no cake walk. So to write -- "My interpretation of Rosenbaum’s statement goes like this: We shall not give up the Holocaust. We shall insist that it is still with us, because that will give our writing depth and resonance." -- is pretty insensitive. Maybe Hal Niedzviecki has written about the Holocaust to give his writing depth, but there are people in this world who are actually still haunted by the genocide. Do I agree that American Jewry is a bit too Holocaust-obsessed? Sure. But let's have some perspective here. This flip analysis hardly advances thought on this issue and is certainly unfair to writers like Rosenbaum whose souls do bear the marks of the Holocaust -- if indirectly so.