A Holocaust Reader
Responses to the Nazi Extermination
Edited by Michael L. Morgan
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.
Readership : This book is intended for use in courses on the Holocaust, Jewish Studies and Philosophy of Religion as well as with those who are interested in Jewish History and the Holocaust.
Reviews
- "An excellent collection for courses undertaking philosophical and religious examinations of the Holocaust."--Wayne Bowen, Ouachita Baptist University
Preface
Introduction
1. EARLY REFLECTIONS
Primo Levi: Survival in Auschwitz
Jean Améry: On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew
Theodor W. Adorno: Meditations on Metaphysics
Hannah Arendt: The Concentration Camps
Martin Buber: The Dialogue between
Heaven and Earth
Elie Wiesel: A Plea for the Dead
2. CENTRAL THEOLOGICAL RESPONSES
Richard Rubenstein: The Making of a Rabbi
Richard Rubenstein: Symposium on Jewish Belief
Eliezer Berkovits: Faith after the Holocaust
Irving Greenberg: Cloud of Smoke, Pillar of Fire:
Judaism, Christianity, and Modernity after the Holocaust
Emil L. Fackenheim: Jewish Faith and the Holocaust: A Fragment
Emil L. Fackenheim: Holocaust
Emil L. Fackenheim: The Holocaust and the State of Israel: Their Relation
A. Roy Eckardt: Christians and Jews: Along a Theological
Frontier
3. DEVELOPMENTS: THE 1970s AND 1980s
Michael Wyschogrod: Faith and the Holocaust
Amos Funkenstein: Theological Interpretations of the Holocaust: A Balance
Arthur A. Cohen: Thinking the Tremendum: Some Theological Implications of the Death Camps
Franklin Sherman:
Speaking of God after Auschwitz
Robert E. Willis: Auschwitz and the Nuturing of Conscience
David Tracy: Religious Values after the Holocaust: A Catholic View
Johann Baptist Metz: Christians and Jews after Auschwitz: Being a Meditation Also on the End of Bourgeois Religion
Emil L.
Fackenheim: The Holocaust and Philosophy
Hans Jonas: The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice
4. THE HOLOCAUST AND WESTERN CULTURE: THE 1980s AND 1990s
Saul Friedlander: The Shoah in Present Historical Consciousness
Omer Bartov: Intellectuals on Auschwitz: Memory,
History, and Truth
Kenneth Seeskin: What Philosophy Can and Cannot Say about Evil
Kenneth Seeskin: Coming to Terms with Failure: A Philosophical Dilemma
Michael André Bernstein: Narrating the Shoah
Berel Lang: The Representation of Evil: Ethical Content as Literary Form
Andreas
Huyssen: Monuments and Holocaust Memory in a Media Age
Bibliography
Index
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Special Features
- The most comprehensive and representative collection of intellectual responses to the Holocaust
- Features a broad range of readings, including both theological and secular responses
- Organized chronologically, it shows how these responses developed over the past half-century
