Research Catalog

Title

Approaches to Auschwitz : the Holocaust and its legacy / Richard L. Rubenstein, John K. Roth.

Author

Rubenstein, Richard L.

Publication

Atlanta : John Knox Press, c1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roth, John K.
• Mazal Holocaust Collection TxSaTAM

Description

ix, 422 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• Extensive research traces the origins of the Holocaust to the earliest anti-Jewish policies of the Greco-Roman world. the study provides a comprehensive examination of the anti-Jewish campaign as it asks the philosophical question ...
• Of how such a monumental calamity occurred. in the aftermath of the Holocaust, the authors seek to ask if the possibility of a similar historical process could occur again. this is a landmark work in which major philosophical ...
• Political, and theological questions are thoroughly discussed by two authors, one Christian, one Jewish.

Subject

• Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
• 1939-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Causes
• Antisemitism > History
• Christianity and antisemitism
• Holocaust (Christian theology)
• Holocaust (Jewish theology)

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [389]-406.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Early historical roots -- The Jew as outsider: the Greco-Roman and early Christian worlds -- The triumph of Christianity and the "teaching of contempt" -- The irony of emancipation: a French connection -- The Nazis in power -- Toward total domination -- War and the final solution -- Victims and survivors -- Responses to the Holocaust -- Their brothers' keepers? Christians, churches, and Jews -- Business as usual? Professions and industries during the Holocaust -- What can--and cannot--be said? Literary responses to the Holocaust -- The silence of God: Philosophical and religious reflection on the Holocaust -- The aftermath and the future -- The legacy of the Holocaust.

ISBN

• 080420778X :
• 0804207771 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^86027749^

OCLC

15014930

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library