After-words: Post-Holocaust Struggles with Forgiveness, Reconciliation, JusticeUniversity of Washington Press, 15/03/2012 - 296 páginas More than fifty years after it ended, the Holocaust continues to leave survivors and their descendants, as well as historians, philosophers, and theologians, searching for words to convey the enormity of that event. Efforts to express its realities and its impact on successive generations often stretch language to the breaking point--or to the point of silence. Words whose meaning was contested before the Holocaust prove even more fragile in its wake. |
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... efforts stretch language to the point where it is unavoidably silenced, and yet the silence, too, evokes responses. Dialogue—sometimes halting, often fragmented, but dialogue nonetheless—is one result of that give-and-take between ...
... efforts at dialogue had created misunderstanding and hurt, we tried to admit our shortcomings and to change. Invariably those efforts were met with hospitality that helped us to see, at least in part, what forgiveness requires and means ...
... efforts of Christians to honor Judaism. We believe it is time for Jews to reflect on what Judaism may now say about Christianity.” In the paragraph on the Holocaust, the document notes, “We applaud those Christians who reject this ...
... efforts do indeed go on, despite the Jewish rejection of forgiveness after the Holocaust. Yet I sense that Haas moves too quickly to affirm “joint work and friendly relations,” eclipsing the sheer effort at the heart of these ...
... efforts cannot smooth over the rupture of the Holocaust. But here too, I seek specificity: what precisely is the gap that must forever haunt relationships between Jews and Christians? This, it seems to me, is the central question that ...
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Reconciliation | 81 |
Justice | 167 |
An After That Is Yet to Be | 249 |
Bibliography | 255 |
About the Editors and Contributors | 267 |
Index | 271 |
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