In novels, film and popular culture, the Holocaust genre is booming. Streaming hits and bestsellers play a vital role in shaping understandings of the past.

But, as Tanya Gold shows in the latest groundbreaking essay for the Jewish Quarterly, the creators of these works all too often engage in a crass and self-serving exercise in exploitation. Shameless is a moral wake-up call: it shows that there are some artists who treat the Holocaust honestly, and they disgrace those who do not. Tanya will be in conversation with historian and educator Trudy Gold.