Authors: Michael L. Morgan
ISBN-13: 9780195059588, ISBN-10: 0195059581
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: August 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
Indiana University, Bloomington
The most comprehensive and representative collection of its kind, A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination features writings by theologians, literary figures, cultural critics, philosophers, political theorists, and others. It surveys the major themes raised by the Holocaust and examines the most provocative and influential responses to these topics and to the Holocaust itself. Organized in a roughly chronological pattern, the volume opens with early responses from the postwar period. Subsequent sections cover the emergence of central theological statements in the late 1960s and 1970s, the development of post-Holocaust thinking in the 1970s and 1980s, and burgeoning reflections on the significance of the death camps. Connections between the Holocaust and important events and episodes in Western culture in the 1980s and 1990s are also discussed.
A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination offers selections from Theodor W. Adorno, Jean Améry, Hannah Arendt, Omer Bartov, Eliezer Berkovits, Michael André Bernstein, Martin Buber, Arthur A. Cohen, A. Roy Eckardt, Emil L. Fackenheim, Saul Friedlander, Amos Funkenstein, Irving Greenberg, Andreas Huyssen, Hans Jonas, Berel Lang, Primo Levi, Johann Baptist Metz, Richard Rubenstein, Kenneth Seeskin, Franklin Sherman, David Tracy, Elie Wiesel, Robert E. Willis, and Michael Wyschogrod. Ideal for courses in the Holocaust, Jewish studies, and the philosophy of religion, this extensive collection will also be of interest to general readers and scholars.
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Early Reflections | 9 |
Survival in Auschwitz | 19 | |
On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew | 27 | |
Meditations on Metaphysics | 42 | |
The Concentration Camps | 47 | |
The Dialogue between Heaven and Earth | 63 | |
A Plea for the Dead | 67 | |
2 | Central Theological Responses | 79 |
The Making of a Rabbi | 90 | |
Symposium on Jewish Belief | 94 | |
Faith after the Holocaust | 96 | |
Cloud of Smoke, Pillar of Fire: Judaism, Christianity, and Modernity after the Holocaust | 102 | |
Jewish Faith and the Holocaust: A Fragment | 115 | |
Holocaust | 122 | |
The Holocaust and the State of Israel: Their Relation | 131 | |
Christians and Jews: Along a Theological Frontier | 138 | |
3 | Developments: The 1970s and 1980s | 159 |
Faith and the Holocaust | 164 | |
Theological Interpretations of the Holocaust: A Balance | 172 | |
Thinking the Tremendum: Some Theological Implications of the Death Camps | 183 | |
Speaking of God after Auschwitz | 196 | |
Auschwitz and the Nurturing of Conscience | 209 | |
Religious Values after the Holocaust: A Catholic View | 223 | |
Christians and Jews after Auschwitz: Being a Meditation Also on the End of Bourgeois Religion | 238 | |
The Holocaust and Philosophy | 250 | |
The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice | 259 | |
4 | The Holocaust and Western Culture: The 1980s and 1990s | 271 |
The Shoah in Present Historical Consciousness | 276 | |
Intellectuals on Auschwitz: Memory, History, and Truth | 290 | |
What Philosophy Can and Cannot Say about Evil | 321 | |
Coming to Terms with Failure: A Philosophical Dilemma | 333 | |
Narrating the Shoah | 337 | |
The Representation of Evil: Ethical Content as Literary Form | 349 | |
Monuments and Holocaust Memory in a Media Age | 359 | |
Bibliography | 365 | |
Index | 375 |