Repentance for the Holocaust

Repentance for the Holocaust

"Develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection of German responses t...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Cornell University Library funder (funder)
Other Authors: Chung, C. K. Martin, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2017
2017.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Public opinion > Germany.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Public opinion, German.
Historiography > Moral and ethical aspects > Germany.
Memory > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Repentance > Judaism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Moral and ethical aspects.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649798206719
Table of Contents:
  • Turning in the God-human relationship
  • Interhuman and collective repentance
  • People, not devils
  • Fascism was the great apostasy
  • The French must love the German spirit now entrusted to them
  • One cannot speak of injustice without raising the question of guilt
  • You won't believe how thankful I am for what you have said
  • Courage to say no and still more courage to say yes
  • Raise our voice, both Jews and Germans
  • The appropriateness of each proposition depends upon who utters it
  • Hitler is in ourselves, too
  • I am Germany
  • Know before whom you will have to give an account
  • We take over the guilt of the fathers
  • Remember the evil, but do not forget the good
  • We are not authorized to forgive.

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