Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Roth, John K.
2. Mazal Holocaust Collection TxSaTAM

Description

1. ix, 422 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. 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 ...
2. 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 ...
3. Political, and theological questions are thoroughly discussed by two authors, one Christian, one Jewish.

Subject

1. Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
2. 1939-1945
3. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Causes
4. Antisemitism > History
5. Christianity and antisemitism
6. Holocaust (Christian theology)
7. Holocaust (Jewish theology)

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. [389]-406.

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