Journal of Historical Review
{{Short description|Pseudocademic journal advancing Holocaust denial}}
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| discipline = Pseudohistory, fringe science
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| publisher = Institute for Historical Review
| country = United States
| history = 1980–2002
| frequency = Bimonthly
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| ISSN = 0195-6752
| eISSN = 0195-6752
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| OCLC = 5584935
| website = http://www.ihr.org/journal/jhrarticles.shtml
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The Journal of Historical Review was a non-peer reviewed, pseudoacademic, neo-Nazi periodical focused on promoting Holocaust denial. It was published by the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), based in Torrance, California. It ran quarterly from 1980 until 1992, and then bimonthly from 1993 until publication ceased in 2002.{{cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/institute-historical-review |title=Institute for Historical Review|work=Southern Poverty Law Center}} A supplement, IHR Newsletter ({{ISSN|1043-156X}}), was published alongside the journal.
History
The journal was founded in 1978 by the far-right political activist Willis Carto.{{cite journal |last1=Macklin |first1=Graham |title=Transatlantic Connections and Conspiracies: A.K. Chesterton and "The New Unhappy Lords" |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |date=2012 |volume=47 |issue=2 |page=285 |doi=10.1177/0022009411431723 |jstor=23249187 |s2cid=153984405 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23249187 |issn=0022-0094}} Its subject was primarily Holocaust denial.
{{cite book
|last=Blee
|first=Kathleen M.
|author-link=Kathleen M. Blee
|year=2003
|title=Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement
|page=92
|publisher=University of California Press
|isbn=0-520-24055-3
|quote=In recent years, Holocaust denial has become a propaganda mainstay of organized racism. It is promulgated by racist groups and by organizations like the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), which publishes the scientific-looking Journal of Historical Review.
|url=https://archive.org/details/insideorganizedr00kath/page/92
{{cite book
|last=Morris |first=Lydia
|year=2006
|title=Rights: Sociological Perspectives
|at=p. 238, note 1
|publisher=Routledge
|isbn=0-415-35522-2
|quote=The pseudo-scholarly guise of Holocaust deniers is epitomised by the Institute for Historical Review—established in the United States in the late 1970s—and its journal, the Journal of Historical Review, which have provided the core of the more contemporary Holocaust denial movement (Stern 1995).}}{{cite journal
|first1=Maria Yurievna|last1=Borodina |first2=Igor Valerievich|last2=Ryzhov |title=Проблема отрицания Холокоста: история, особенности и современные тенденции
|trans-title=The Holocaust denial problem: history, features and contemporary trends
|url=http://www.unn.ru/pages/e-library/vestnik/19931778_2015_-_3_unicode/10.pdf
|language=ru
|journal=Bulletin of the N. I. Lobachevsky University of Nizhny Novgorod
|location=Nizhny Novgorod
|publisher= N. I. Lobachevsky University
|date=2015
|number=3
|page=98
|issn=1993-1778
|access-date=28 June 2023
|quote=The publication by the Institute for the Revision of History of its own historical journal, the Journal of Historical Review, helped not only to unite the deniers into a single movement, but also to give their activities a pseudo-scientific form.}} In 1985, Mark Weber joined the institute's editorial advisory committee and, between 1992 and 2000, he was editor of the Journal.
The journal became a platform for neo-Nazis around the world, with the editorial board composed of Holocaust deniers, including Germans Udo Walendy, Wilhelm Stäglich, and Georg Franz-Willing); French Robert Faurisson and Henri Roques; Argentinian W. Beweraggi-Allende, Australian John Tuson Bennett; Spanish Enrique Aynat); Italian Carlo Mattogno; and American M. A. R. Barker.{{Cite web|title= The Institute for Historical Review |url=http://auschwitz.org/en/history/holocaust-denial/the-institute-for-historical-review|access-date=2020-08-30|website=Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum}}{{Cite web |date=September 2, 2017 |title=Editorial Advisory Committee |url=https://vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518162602/http://vho.org:80/GB/Journals/JHR/index.html |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |access-date=March 21, 2022 |website=The Journal of Historical Review |language=en}}
The journal commenced publication in the spring of 1980 as a quarterly periodical. No issues were published between April 1996 and May 1997; it thereafter continued until 2002. After publication of the journal ceased, the IHR publishes its Bulletin only in an online format, although back issues are still made available on the Institute website.{{cite web|url=http://www.ihr.org/journal/jhrarticles.shtml|title=Journal of Historical Review by Volume|publisher=Institute for Historical Review|website=IHR|access-date=28 June 2023|archive-date=4 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704185446/http://www.ihr.org/journal/jhrarticles.shtml|url-status=dead}}
Reception
The Journal's critics have included the Anti-Defamation League, the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and scholars including Robert Hanyok, a National Security Agency historian,{{cite book |last=Hanyok |first=Robert J. |year=2005 |title=Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 |url=https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-figures-publications/publications/wwii/assets/files/eavesdropping.pdf|publisher=National Security Agency|edition=Second |access-date=2017-09-04}} and many others who have described the journal as pseudo-scientific.
{{cite book
|last1=Berlet |first1=Chip |author-link=Chip Berlet
|last2=Lyons |first2=Matthew Nemiroff
|year=2000
|title=Right-wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort
|url=https://archive.org/details/rightwingpopulis00berlrich |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/rightwingpopulis00berlrich/page/189 189]
|publisher=Guilford Press
|isbn=1-57230-562-2
}}
Jonathan Petropoulos wrote in The History Teacher that the "[journal] is shockingly racist and antisemitic: articles on 'America's Failed Racial Policy' and anti-Israel pieces accompany those about gas chambers... They clearly have no business claiming to be a continuation of the revisionist tradition, and should be referred to as 'Holocaust Deniers'."
{{cite journal |last1=Petropoulos |first1=Jonathan |year=1995 |title=Confronting the "Holocaust as Hoax" Phenomenon as Teachers |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/494640 |journal=The History Teacher |volume=28 |issue=4 |pages=523–539 |doi=10.2307/494640 |jstor=494640}}
Russian historians Igor Ryzhov and Maria Borodina commented that the fact that the Institute for Historical Review published its own historical journal "helped not only to unite the deniers into a single movement, but also to give their activities a form of pseudo-scientificness."
The Organization of American Historians commissioned a study of the journal in which a panel had found that it was "nothing but a masquerade of scholarship".{{cite web |url=http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/historical_review.asp?xpicked=3&item=ihr |title=Extremism in America: Institute for Historical Review|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061202163147/http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/historical_review.asp?xpicked=3&item=ihr |archive-date=2006-12-02 |url-status=dead |work=Anti-Defamation League|date= 2005 |access-date=May 9, 2007}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.ihr.org/journal/jhrarticles.shtml}}
- {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120717130433/http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/historical_review.asp?xpicked=3&item=ihr |date=2012-07-17|title=Extremism in America}}, from the Anti-Defamation League.
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Category:Fringe science journals
Category:Holocaust denial in the United States
Category:Holocaust historiography
Category:Jewish-American history
Category:Academic journals established in 1980
Category:Far-right publications in the United States