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Thinking the unthinkable : meanings of the Holocaust / edited by Roger S. Gottlieb.

Title
Thinking the unthinkable : meanings of the Holocaust / edited by Roger S. Gottlieb.
Publication
New York : Paulist Press, c1990.

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Additional Authors
Gottlieb, Roger S.
Description
ix, 446 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • 1939-1945
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Causes
  • Holocaust (Jewish theology)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Why did it happen? Why? Towards a theory of the Holocaust / Ronald Aronson -- Religion and the origins of the death camps : a psychanalytic interpretation / Richard C. Rubenstein -- Murderous objectivity : reflections on Marxism and the Holocaust / Richard Schmitt -- Adolf Hitler's childhood : from hidden to manifest horror / Alice Miller -- The agents : reflections on victims and murderers. Us and them / Terence Des Pres -- The right way to act : indicting the victims / Abigail Rosenthal -- Thoughts about women and the Holocaust / Joan Ringelheim -- Different horrors, same hell : women remembering the Holocaust / Myrna Goldenberg -- The anti-Semite / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Doubling : the Faustian bargain / Robert J. Lifton -- The Holocaust and spiritual life. "The death of my father" and "Yom Kippur" / Elie Wiesel -- Authenticity of being / Eliezer Berkovits -- Jewish existence after the Holocaust / Emil L. Fackenheim -- The challenge of the Holocaust for Christian theology / John T. Pawlikowski -- The meaning of this hour / Abraham Joshua Heschel.
  • (Cont.) Two central moral questions : Nazi guilt and Jewish resistance. Postscript to Eichmann in Jerusalem / Hannah Arendt -- On Eichmann / Gershom Scholem -- Measuring responsibility / A. Zvi Bar-On -- Jews, tradition, and resistance / Hersh Smoliar [and others] -- The concept of resistance : Jewish resistance during the Holocaust / Roger S. Gottlieb -- Present and future questions : hope, survivors, and memory. The Holocaust and the human condition / George Kren and Leon Rappaport -- The Holocaust-- one generation after / Bruno Bettelheim -- Responses to the Holocaust / Miriam Greenspan -- The memory of the offense / Primo Levi -- The Holocaust and the imperative to remember / Jerry Samet -- Remembrance and resistance / Roger S. Gottlieb.
ISBN
0809131722
LCCN
^^^90033601^
OCLC
  • 21302136
  • SCSB-11695927
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library