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A Holocaust Reader: Michael L. Morgan

This document is the table of contents for a book titled "A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination" edited by Michael L. Morgan and published by Oxford University Press in 2001. The book is divided into four sections covering early reflections on the Holocaust from 1947 to the 1960s, central theological responses from the 1960s to the 1970s, further developments in the 1970s and 1980s, and consideration of the Holocaust's impact on Western culture from the 1980s to the 1990s. Each section contains several essays on philosophical, theological, and cultural perspectives on the Nazi genocide.

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A Holocaust Reader: Michael L. Morgan

This document is the table of contents for a book titled "A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination" edited by Michael L. Morgan and published by Oxford University Press in 2001. The book is divided into four sections covering early reflections on the Holocaust from 1947 to the 1960s, central theological responses from the 1960s to the 1970s, further developments in the 1970s and 1980s, and consideration of the Holocaust's impact on Western culture from the 1980s to the 1990s. Each section contains several essays on philosophical, theological, and cultural perspectives on the Nazi genocide.

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A Holocaust Reader

Responses to the Nazi Extermination

EDITED BY

Michael L. Morgan
Indiana University, Bloomington

New York Oxford


OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
2001
CONTENTS

Preface vi
Introduction 1

1 EARLY REFLECTIONS 9

Survival in Auschwitz 19
Primo Levi
On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew 27
Jean Amery
Meditations on Metaphysics 42
Theodor W. Adorno
The Concentration Camps 47
Hannah Arendt
The Dialogue between Heaven and Earth 63
Martin Buber
A Plea for the Dead 67
Elie Wiesel

2 CENTRAL THEOLOGICAL RESPONSES 79

The Making of a Rabbi 90


Richard Rubenstein
Symposium on Jewish Belief 94
Richard Rubenstein
Faith after the Holocaust 96
Eliezer Berkovits
Cloud of Smoke, Pillar of Fire: Judaism, Christianity,
and Modernity after the Holocaust 102
Irving Greenberg
Jewish Faith and the Holocaust: A Fragment 115
Emil L. Fackenheim
iv Contents
Holocaust 122
Emil L. Fackenheim
The Holocaust and the State of Israel:
Their Relation 131
Emil L. Fackenheim
Christians and Jews: Along a Theological Frontier 138
A. Roy Eckardt

3 DEVELOPMENTS: THE 1970s AND 1980s 159

Faith and the Holocaust 164


Michael Wyschogrod
Theological Interpretations of the Holocaust:
A Balance 172
Amos Funkenstein
Thinking the Tremendum: Some Theological
Implications of the Death Camps 183
Arthur A. Cohen
Speaking of God after Auschwitz 196
Franklin Sherman
Auschwitz and the Nurturing of Conscience 209
Robert E. Willis
Religious Values after the Holocaust:
A Catholic View 223
David Tracy
Christians and Jews after Auschwitz: Being a
Meditation Also on the End of Bourgeois Religion 238
Johann Baptist Metz
The Holocaust and Philosophy 250
Emil L. Fackenheim
The Concept of God after Auschwitz:
A Jewish Voice 259
Hans Jonas

4 THE HOLOCAUST AND WESTERN CULTURE:


THE 1980s AND 1990s 271
The Shoah in Present Historical Consciousness 276
Saul Friedlander
Contents
Intellectuals on Auschwitz: Memory, History,
and Truth 290
Omer Bartov
What Philosophy Can and Cannot Say about Evil 321
Kenneth Seeskin
Coming to Terms with Failure:
A Philosophical Dilemma 333
Kenneth Seeskin
Narrating the Shoah 337
Michael Andre Bernstein
The Representation of Evil: Ethical Content as
Literary Form 349
Berel Lang
Monuments and Holocaust Memory in a
Media Age 359
Andreas Huyssen
Bibliography 365
Index 375

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