Murray J Kohn

Is the Holocaust Vanishing?

A Survivor's Reflections on the Academic Waning of Memory and Jewish Identity in the Post-Auschwitz Era

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Produktbeschreibung

Is the Holocaust Vanishing? explores the ramifications of the passing of survivors for Holocaust studies, the removal of the Jew from Holocaust studies, and what all of this means for Jewish identity after the Holocaust. The book consists of years of reflection and wrestling with these issues on the part of a man who is a Holocaust survivor, a rabbi, and a professor of Holocaust studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780761831488
• ISBN-10: 0761831487
• Artikelnr.: 22701348

Autorenporträt

Murray J. Kohn

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction by David Patterson
Chapter 4 Part One: The Waning of Memory: Wherefore Liberation?
Chapter 5 Part Two: History and the Abuse of History
Chapter 6 Part Three: God and Evil
Chapter 7 Part Four: Remembrance in Spite of Memory
Chapter 8 Part Five: Memory of the Future
Chapter 9 Part Six: Toward a Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity
Chapter 10 Part Seven: Renewed Reflections on Selections from Torah
Chapter 11 Index
Chapter 12 About the Author
Chapter 13 About the Editor