Title: Holocaust politics /
Authors: Roth, John K.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Moral and ethical aspects; Memory Religious aspects Judaism; Memory Social aspects.
Abstract: "More than half a century after Nazi Germany's genocidal assault on the Jewish people, the Holocaust grips our attention as never before, raising hotly-debated questions: How is the Holocaust best remembered? What are its lessons? Who gets to answers those questions? Who owns the Holocaust? Those issues provoke disagreements that can be cutthroat or constructive. Taking its point of departure from the controversy that swirled around John Roth's aborted appointment as director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, a senior post at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Holocaust Politics shows how contemporary attitudes and priorities compete to determine that all-important difference."--Jacket.
Contents: Prologue: What is Holocaust politics? -- Who owns the Holocaust? -- What can and cannot be said about the Holocaust? -- How is the Holocaust best remembered? -- How is the Holocaust a warning? -- Holocaust politics and post-Holocaust Christianity -- Ethics after Auschwitz: what can be learned from the Holocaust? -- Epilogue: Where does Holocaust politics lead?