Holocaust by John K Roth

Holocaust by John K Roth

Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications is an anthology specifically designed for use as a textbook for courses on the Holocaust in universities and adult study groups. It is a compilation of what are now classic pieces in the voluminous literature on the Holocaust - pieces by Raul Hilberg, Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, George Steiner, Richard Rubenstein and Irving Greenberg - all organized around what the editors have found to be the most often asked questions by their students: (1) Is the Holocaust unique? (2) What really happened in the ghettos and death camps? (3) Who knew what was going on? (4) How could people do the things they did? (5) What about God?

Governed by the thesis that the Holocaust left fundamental questions, Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications, in addition to being organized around the five themes identified above, addresses the multiple implications of complexities such as resistance during the Holocaust, and Jewish and Christian identity after Auschwitz.

MICHAEL BERENBAUM was the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's United States Holocaust Research Institute and a Goldman Adjunct Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. He was the Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1988 to 1993, where he was in charge of the permanent exhibition's idea and implementation. Berenbaum is the President and CEO of the Los Angeles-based Survivors of the Shoah, A Visual History Foundation.