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Authors: Michael Berenbaum
ISBN-13: 9780761832034, ISBN-10: 0761832033
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Michael Berenbaum

Book Synopsis

Murder Most Merciful is a collection of insightful essays that consider Sigi Ziering's play, The Judgment of Herbert Bierhoff. Commentary from the book's diverse contributors, including Holocaust survivors, scholars, rabbis, philosophers, and historians, result in an insightful and provocative moral and theological exchange. Murder Most Merciful will stimulate further debate on the crucial issues of martyrdom, euthanasia, and the guilt of the innocent. The book appears in the Studies in the Shoah series as volume 28.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The judgment of Herbert Bierhoff1
Remember, but do not resolve89
Shimon's obsession97
Despair, murder, death, guilt and anger103
A haunting question : an elusive answer109
The arms of strangers : a meditation on the judgment of Herbert Bierhoff117
Standing in awe125
Making your child a martyr135
The judgment of the Nazis153
Dream and nightmare : judging Herbert Bierhoff and ourselves165
Explanation, understanding, and holding Holocaust perpetrators responsible : the myth of the slippery slope to exculpation173
Those left behind213
An interview with Sigi Ziering217
Tribute245

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