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
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.
Introduction | ||
The judgment of Herbert Bierhoff | 1 | |
Remember, but do not resolve | 89 | |
Shimon's obsession | 97 | |
Despair, murder, death, guilt and anger | 103 | |
A haunting question : an elusive answer | 109 | |
The arms of strangers : a meditation on the judgment of Herbert Bierhoff | 117 | |
Standing in awe | 125 | |
Making your child a martyr | 135 | |
The judgment of the Nazis | 153 | |
Dream and nightmare : judging Herbert Bierhoff and ourselves | 165 | |
Explanation, understanding, and holding Holocaust perpetrators responsible : the myth of the slippery slope to exculpation | 173 | |
Those left behind | 213 | |
An interview with Sigi Ziering | 217 | |
Tribute | 245 |