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Approaches To Auschwitz » (REV)

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Authors: Roth, John K. Roth, John K. Roth
ISBN-13: 9780664223533, ISBN-10: 0664223532
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing
Date Published: March 2007
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: Roth

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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Prologue: What Is the Holocaust?1
Pt. 1Holocaust Origins23
1The Jew as Outsider: The Greco-Roman and Early Christian Worlds25
2The Triumph of Christianity and the "Teaching of Contempt"49
3The Irony of Emancipation: France and the Dreyfus Affair71
4Toward Total Domination97
Pt. 2The Nazis in Power119
5"Rational Antisemitism"121
6War and the Final Solution143
7"A Racial Struggle of Pitiless Severity"167
8"Priority over All Other Matters"185
Pt. 3Responses to the Holocaust215
9Victims and Survivors217
10Their Brothers' Keepers? Christians, Churches, and Jews249
11What Can - and Cannot - Be Said? Artistic and Literary Responses to the Holocaust291
12God and History: Philosophical and Religious Responses to the Holocaust327
Epilogue: Business as Usual? Ethics after the Holocaust355
Notes379
A Chronology of Crucial Holocaust-Related Events453
Select Bibliography457
Index461

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