Research Catalog

Title

Reflections on the Holocaust : historical, philosophical, and educational dimensions / special editors of this volume, Irene G. Shur, Franklin H. Littell, Marvin E. Wolfgang.

Publication

Philadelphia : American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1980.

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Additional Authors

• American Academy of Political and Social Science
• Littell, Franklin H. (Franklin Hamlin), 1917-
• Shur, Irene G.
• Wolfgang, Marvin E. (Marvin Eugene), 1924-1998

Description

x, 315 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 0002-7162 ; v. 450

Uniform Title

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science v. 450.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Study and teaching

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 257-310.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• A statement from the president / Marvin E. Wolfgang -- Preface / Irene G. Shur, Franklin H. Littell, and Marvin E. Wolfgang -- Historical antecedents: why the Holocaust? / Claude R. Foster -- Racism and German Protestant theology: a prelude to the Holocaust / Alan Davies -- Genocide: was it the Nazis' original plan? / Yehuda Bauer -- Putative threat to national security as a Nuremberg defense for genocide / Robert Wolfe -- Holocaust business: some reflections on Arbeit Macht Frei / John K. Roth -- Children of Hippocrates: doctors in Nazi Germany / Jack S. Boozer -- The ghetto as a form of government / Raul Hilberg -- Failure to rescue European Jewry: wartime Britain and America / Henry L. Feingold -- Jewish organizations and the creation of the U.S. War Refugee Board / Monty N. Penkower -- The ecumenical community and the holocaust / Armin F.C. Boyens -- The holocaust and the historians / John S. Conway.
• The Holocaust and the enigma of uniqueness: a philosophical effort at practical clarification / Alice L. Eckardt and A. Roy Eckardt -- The Christian response to the Holocaust / Robert F. Drinan -- The first German church faces the challenge of the Holocaust: a report / Heinz Kremers -- The reparations agreements: a new perspective / Leslie Sebba -- Fundamentals in Holocaust studies / Franklin H. Littell -- The teaching of the Holocaust: dilemmas and considerations / Chaim Schatzker -- Problems in coping with the holocaust: experiences with students in a multinational program / Arye Carmon -- The holocaust: rescue and relief documentation in the National Archives / John Mendelsohn -- The Holocaust: a never-ending agony / Fred Roberts Crawford -- Epilogue / Franklin H. Littell.

ISBN

• 0877612528 :
• 0877612536 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^80066618^

OCLC

6601301

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library