Punkass Jews

Steven Lee Beeber, in his new book The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk, asserts that punk would never have existed withouth... the Holocaust. As a Boston Globe reviewer puts it:

Central to Beeber's idea of punk's inherent Jewishness is the Holocaust. He even goes so far as to declare "No Holocaust, no punk." Yes, the roiling anger and dark humor of punk was a reaction to lingering feelings of victimization. Yet, Jewish punks also adapted Nazi slogans and symbols both as a shock tactic and a campy send up. Songs like the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop " and the Dictators' "Master Race Rock " weren't celebrating Nazism as much as mocking its ignominious defeat, the author maintains.

Not having read the book, the claim seems an unbelievable stretch to me (and, to a lesser extent, to at least one reviewer). Nevertheless.

Beeber's website -- JewPunk -- here. There's no shortage of Jewish punk references elsewhere.