Research Catalog

Title

Holocaust politics / John K. Roth.

Author

Roth, John K.

Publication

Louisville [Ky.] : Westminster John Knox Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Description

xviii, 354 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• "More than half a century after Nazi Germany's genocidal assault on the Jewish people, the Holocaust grips our attention as never before, raising hotly-debated questions: How is the Holocaust best remembered? What are its lessons? Who gets to answers those questions? Who owns the Holocaust? Those issues provoke disagreements that can be cutthroat or constructive.
• Taking its point of departure from the controversy that swirled around John Roth's aborted appointment as director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, a senior post at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Holocaust Politics shows how contemporary attitudes and priorities compete to determine that all-important difference."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Moral and ethical aspects
• Memory > Social aspects
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence
• Memory > Religious aspects > Judaism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-337) and index.

Contents

Prologue: What Is Holocaust Politics? -- 1. Who Owns the Holocaust? -- 2. What Can and Cannot Be Said about the Holocaust? -- 3. How Is the Holocaust Best Remembered? -- 4. How Is the Holocaust a Warning? -- 5. Holocaust Politics and Post-Holocaust Christianity -- 6. Ethics after Auschwitz: What Can Be Learned from the Holocaust? -- Epilogue: Where Does Holocaust Politics Lead?

ISBN

0664221734 (alk. free)

LCCN

2001026109

OCLC

• ocm46640862
• SCSB-4205901

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries