After-Words: Post-Holocaust Struggles with Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Justice (Pastora Goldner Series in Post-Holocaust Studies) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

After-Words: Post-Holocaust Struggles with Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Justice (Pastora Goldner Series in Post-Holocaust Studies) Book

More than fifty years after it ended, the Holocaust continues to leave survivors and their descendants, as well as historians, philosophers, and theologians, searching for words to convey the enormity of that event. Efforts to express its realities and its impact on successive generations often stretch language to the breaking point - or to the point of silence. Words whose meaning was contested before the Holocaust prove even more fragile in its wake. David Patterson and John K. Roth identify three such 'after-words': forgiveness, reconciliation, and justice. These words, though forever altered by the Holocaust, are still spoken and heard. But how should the concepts they represent be understood? How can their integrity be restored within the framework of current philosophical and, especially, religious traditions?Writing in a format that creates the feel of dialogue, the nine contributors to "After-Words" tackle these and other difficult questions about the nature of memory and forgiveness after the Holocaust to encourage others to participate in similar inter- and intrafaith inquiries. The contributors to "After-Words" are members of the Pastora Goldner Holocaust Symposium. Led since its founding in 1996 by Leonard Grob and Henry Knight, the symposium's Holocaust and genocide scholars - a group that is interfaith, international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational - meet biennially in Oxfordshire.Read More

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  • 0295984066
  • 9780295984063
  • John K. Roth, K. Pitzer Russell
  • 15 March 2005
  • University of Washington Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 275
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