Repentance for the Holocaust
Subtitle: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781501707612
Subjects: Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945); Repentance; Public opinion, germany
Description: "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 to the Nazi past, their interaction with the victims' responses, such as those from Jewish individuals, and their correspondence with biblical repentance. In demonstrating the victims' influence on German responses, Chung asserts that the phenomenon of Vergangenheitsbewältigung can best be understood in a relational, rather than a national, paradigm"--