Israel In Prophecy

Last Name

RUBENSTEIN & ROTH

First Name

Richard L., and John K.

Title

Approaches to Auschwitz: the Holocaust and its Legacy

Publisher

Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, Rev.ed., 2nd.ed.

Year

2003

Group

HOL

Comments

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Contents

Prologue: What is the Holocaust

pt. 1. Holocaust origins.

• The Jew as outsider: the Greco-Roman and early Christian worlds
• The triumph of Christianity and the "teaching of contempt"
• The irony of emancipation: France and the Dreyfus affair
• Toward total domination

pt. 2. The Nazis in power.

• "Rational antisemitism"
• War and the Final solution
• "A racial struggle of pitiless severity"
• "Priority over all other matters"

pt. 3. Responses to the Holocaust.

• Victims and survivors
• Their brothers' keepers?: Christians, churches, and Jews
• What can, and cannot, be said?: artistic and literary responses to the Holocaust
• God and history: philosophical and religious responses to the Holocaust

Epilogue: Business as usual?: ethics after the Holocaust