Thinking the unthinkable : meanings of the Holocaust / edited by Roger S. Gottlieb.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Paulist Press, c1990.Description: ix, 446 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0809131722 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.53 20 G715t
LOC classification:
  • D804.3 .T49 1990
Contents:
(Cont.) Two central moral questions : Nazi guilt and Jewish resistance. Postscript to Eichmann in Jerusalem / Hannah Arendt -- On Eichmann / Gershom Scholem -- Measuring responsibility / A. Zvi Bar-On -- Jews, tradition, and resistance / Hersh Smoliar ... [et al.] -- The concept of resistance : Jewish resistance during the Holocaust / Roger S. Gottlieb -- Present and future questions : hope, survivors, and memory. The Holocaust and the human condition / George Kren and Leon Rappaport -- The Holocaust-- one generation after / Bruno Bettelheim -- Responses to the Holocaust / Miriam Greenspan -- The memory of the offense / Primo Levi -- The Holocaust and the imperative to remember / Jerry Samet -- Remembrance and resistance / Roger S. Gottlieb.
Why did it happen? Why? Towards a theory of the Holocaust / Ronald Aronson -- Religion and the origins of the death camps : a psychanalytic interpretation / Richard C. Rubenstein -- Murderous objectivity : reflections on Marxism and the Holocaust / Richard Schmitt -- Adolf Hitler's childhood : from hidden to manifest horror / Alice Miller -- The agents : reflections on victims and murderers. Us and them / Terence Des Pres -- The right way to act : indicting the victims / Abigail Rosenthal -- Thoughts about women and the Holocaust / Joan Ringelheim -- Different horrors, same hell : women remembering the Holocaust / Myrna Goldenberg -- The anti-Semite / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Doubling : the Faustian bargain / Robert J. Lifton -- The Holocaust and spiritual life. "The death of my father" and "Yom Kippur" / Elie Wiesel -- Authenticity of being / Eliezer Berkovits -- Jewish existence after the Holocaust / Emil L. Fackenheim -- The challenge of the Holocaust for Christian theology / John T. Pawlikowski -- The meaning of this hour / Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Includes bibliographical references.

(Cont.) Two central moral questions : Nazi guilt and Jewish resistance. Postscript to Eichmann in Jerusalem / Hannah Arendt -- On Eichmann / Gershom Scholem -- Measuring responsibility / A. Zvi Bar-On -- Jews, tradition, and resistance / Hersh Smoliar ... [et al.] -- The concept of resistance : Jewish resistance during the Holocaust / Roger S. Gottlieb -- Present and future questions : hope, survivors, and memory. The Holocaust and the human condition / George Kren and Leon Rappaport -- The Holocaust-- one generation after / Bruno Bettelheim -- Responses to the Holocaust / Miriam Greenspan -- The memory of the offense / Primo Levi -- The Holocaust and the imperative to remember / Jerry Samet -- Remembrance and resistance / Roger S. Gottlieb.

Why did it happen? Why? Towards a theory of the Holocaust / Ronald Aronson -- Religion and the origins of the death camps : a psychanalytic interpretation / Richard C. Rubenstein -- Murderous objectivity : reflections on Marxism and the Holocaust / Richard Schmitt -- Adolf Hitler's childhood : from hidden to manifest horror / Alice Miller -- The agents : reflections on victims and murderers. Us and them / Terence Des Pres -- The right way to act : indicting the victims / Abigail Rosenthal -- Thoughts about women and the Holocaust / Joan Ringelheim -- Different horrors, same hell : women remembering the Holocaust / Myrna Goldenberg -- The anti-Semite / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Doubling : the Faustian bargain / Robert J. Lifton -- The Holocaust and spiritual life. "The death of my father" and "Yom Kippur" / Elie Wiesel -- Authenticity of being / Eliezer Berkovits -- Jewish existence after the Holocaust / Emil L. Fackenheim -- The challenge of the Holocaust for Christian theology / John T. Pawlikowski -- The meaning of this hour / Abraham Joshua Heschel.

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