ABSTRACT
The difference between cultural and physical genocide is self-evidently important and should be, as a matter of method and substance, always respected. For it entails the essential recognition that identifying an event as an instance of "cultural genocide" and identifying a different event as an instance of "physical genocide" is, in effect, to describe two dissimilar realities. The employment of the terms "unique" and "uniqueness" in relation to the Holocaust and, by implication, the significance that these notions might have in relation to other events of mass death that have been identified as instances of "genocide," has engendered a good deal of discussion. In his more extended study, The Final Solution: A Genocide, published in 2009, D. Bloxham returned to the issue of "uniqueness." The book's subtitle "A Genocide," is meant to indicate that the Holocaust is just one event in a series of like-events, all the events in the series being instances of genocide.
