“Maus” is a decades old book about Holocaust survivors. Its ban by a Tennessee school board has sparked renewed interest in it.
Davis, whose store is located within 15 miles of McMinn County, also has set up"We're getting requests from parents all over the country, even Europe, asking for copies," said Davis.
"The Streisand effect struck again," he added, referring to the phenomenon — named after superstar singer Barbra Streisand — of an effort to ban something actually causing increased public awareness of that thing. The book, which won a Pulitzer in 1992, tells the story of Spiegelman's parents' time in Nazi death camps, the mass murder of other Jews, and his mother's suicide years later.
But the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., challenged that idea in a tweet Wednesday after news broke about the ban, saying:"'Maus' has played a vital role in educating about the Holocaust" and that"Teaching about the Holocaust using books like Maus can inspire students to think critically about the past and their own roles and responsibilities today."
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