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Humanity at the limit : the impact of the Holocaust experience on Jews and Christians

Five decades after the end of World War II, issues relating to the history and meaning of the Holocaust, far from fading from social consciousness, have, if anything intensified. New generations probe the past and its implications for understanding human behavior. As fresh information about the particularities of the Holocaust comes to light, we know more and more about how these events happened, but the deeper question of "why" remains unanswered. In this compelling volume, Jewish and Christian thinkers from Israel, Germany, and Eastern Europe, as well as the United States and Canada, among them scholars from the fields of history, theology, ethics, genetics, the arts, and literature, confront the legacy of the Holocaust and its continuing impact from the perspectives of their disciplines. The issue of religion is central, as the Vatican's 1998 statement We Remember: Reflections on the Shoah prompts Jewish and Christian contributors to address issues of responsibility, evil, and justice within their concrete historical and social settings. The essays in this important interfaith, international, and interdisciplinary volume will leave readers pondering the unavoidable question: what, in view of the crimes of the Holocaust, is the nature of human nature? -- Amazon.com
Print Book, English, ©2000
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©2000
Aufsatzsammlung
xiv, 461 pages ; 24 cm
9780253337399, 0253337399
43903634
Facing the Shoah : memory and history / Saul Friedländer
PART 1: The Impact of the Holocaust : An Interdisciplinary Approach
Divine and human responsibility in the light of the Holocaust / John T. Pawlikowski
Racism and ethics : constructing altenative history / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
The strange and the familiar / Joan Ringelheim
Against redemption : the arts of counter-memory / James E. Young
PART 2: Theology from the Depths : New Directions in Germany
Introduction : Four German theologians / Robert A. Krieg
In the shadow of the Shoah : being a theologian in Germany today / Hans Hermann Henrix
The revival of the Jewish people within the Christian consciousness in Germany / Peter von der Osten-Sacken
An alternative for Christian substitution theology and Christology after the Shoah / Bertold Klappert
After sixty years : how can we speak of guilt, suffering, and reconciliation? / Hanspeter Heinz
PART 3: The Limits of Covenant
Introduction : The limits of covenant / John K. Roth
The Holocaust : reflections from the perspective of Asian liberation theology / Peter C. Phan
Martin Buber and Romano Guardini : case study in Jewish-Catholic dialogue / Robert A. Krieg
Wounded word, wounded interpreter / Peter Ochs
Pour out your heart like water : toward a Jewish feminist theology of the Holocaust / Rachel Adler
PART 4: Racism and Ethics : The Social Uses of Science
Introduction : Eugenics and the social uses of science : non-religious factors in the genesis of the Holocaust / Phillip R. Sloan
The ghost of Galton : eugenics past, present, and future / Daniel J. Kevles
Eugenics and race-hygiene in the German context : a legacy of science turned bad? / Peter Weingart
Eugenics after the Holocaust : the limits of reproductive rights / Roberta M. Berry
Heredity and genetics after the Holocaust / Jonathan Marks
The significance of Nazi eugenics for medical ethics today / Didier Pollefeyt. PART 5: History, Coexistence, and Conflict : Gentiles and Jews in East Central Europe
Introduction : Challenging history : reflections on the Holocaust in Austria, Germany and Poland / Doris L. Bergen
Non-Jews and Jews in Austria before, during, and after the Holocaust / Gerhard Botz
Jews and non-Jews in Austria / J. Robert Wegs
Who is Jewish? The newest Jewish writing in German and Daniel Goldhagen / Sander L. Gilman
What is cultural identity? / Victoria J. Barnett
Poland and the memory of the Holocaust / Michael C. Steinlauf
Poland and the Holocaust / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
PART 6: Lost Hope and Betrayal : The Survivors
Introduction : "Reading" the Holocaust / Arnold J. Band
Damaged childhood in Holocaust fact and fiction / Lawrence Langer
Dealing with the Holocaust : "After Auschwitz" in Germany / Edna Brocke
Video history of the Holocaust : the case fo the Shoah Foundation / Michael Berenbaum
What to do : approaches to post-Holocaust education / David R. Blumenthal
PART 7: Beyond the Survivor : Aesthetic Representations of the Holocaust
Introduction : The Notre Dame Holocaust project / John P. Welle
Cinematic history, melodrama, and the Holocaust / Marcia Landy
Speaking back to scripture : the Biblical strain in Holocaust poetry / John Felstiner
Two models in the study of Holocaust literature / Alan Mintz
The Jewish-Christian encounter : a matter of faith? / Remi Hoeckman
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