Steven T. Katz

Holocaust Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Reflections

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The distinctive feature of this book, both individually and as a collection, is its concentration on the Holocaust from a Judeo-centric point of view.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429018718
• Artikelnr.: 56303651

Autorenporträt

Steven T. Katz holds the Alvin J. And Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish Holocaust Studies at Boston University. A prolific author, he is the editor of Modern Judaism and has published numerous works on the Holocaust and Jewish philosophy, including Post-Holocaust Dialogues: Studies in 20th Century Jewish Thought, which won a 1984 Jewish Book Award; Historicism, the Holocaust and Zionism: Critical Studies in Modern Jewish Thought and History; and The Holocaust in Historical Context, vol. 1, selected by the American Association of Publishers as the "Outstanding book of 1994 in the category of philosophy and religion." He served for seven years as Academic Advisor to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, a consortium of 35 countries and a wide group of NGOs.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. On the Holocaust and Comparative History
2. Mass Death Under Communist Rule and the Limits of Otherness
3. Auschwitz and the Gulag: A Study in Dissimilarity
4. Children in Auschwitz and the Gulag
5. On the Definition of Genocide and the Issue of Uniqueness
6. Exploring the Holocaust and Comparative History
7. Extermination Trumps Production: On the Issues of Jews as Slave Laborers
8. The Murder of Jewish Children during the Holocaust
9. Thoughts on the Intersection of Rape and Rassenschande during the
Holocaust
10. Irving Greenberg on History and Halakha: The Implications of the
Holocaust
11. Exploring the Concept of Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh L'Zeh
12. Thinking about Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust
13. Elie Wiesel: The Man and His Legacy
14. The Issue of Confirmation and Disconfirmation in Jewish Thought after
the Shoah
15. Jewish Theologians Respond to the Holocaust
Index