Holocaust PoliticsWestminster John Knox Press, 2001 M01 1 - 354 pages More than half a century after Nazi Germany's genocidal assault on the Jewish people, the Holocaust grips our attention as never before, raising hotly-debated questions: how is the Holocaust best remembered? What are its lessons? Who gets to answer those questions? Who owns the Holocaust? These questions provoke disagreements that can be cutthroat or constructive. Taking its point of departure from the controversy that swirled around the author's aborted appointment as director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies,Holocaust Politicsshows how contemporary attitudes and priorities compete to determine that all-important difference. |
Contents
What Is Holocaust Politics? | 1 |
Who Owns the Holocaust? | 33 |
What Can and Cannot Be Said about the Holocaust? | 65 |
How Is the Holocaust Best Remembered? | 106 |
How Is the Holocaust a Warning? | 138 |
Holocaust Politics and PostHolocaust Christianity | 177 |
Ethics after Auschwitz What Can Be Learned from the Holocaust? | 220 |
Where Does Holocaust Politics Lead? | 255 |
Notes | 285 |
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