"These essays are extremely well written, with the clarity and
accessibility that one has come to expect from Berel Lang, one of
the most respected and significant philosophers writing about the
Holocaust and its impact." Michael L. Morgan
In these trenchant essays, philosopher Berel Lang examines
post-Holocaust intepretations and misinterpretations showing the
ways in which rhetoric and ideology have affected historical
discourse about the Holocaust and how these accounts can be
deconstructed. Why didn t the Jews resist? How could the Germans
have done what they did? Why didn t more bystanders join in the
rescue? In Lang s view, these questions become mischievous when the
circumstances in which victims, perpetrators, and bystanders played
their roles are omitted or obscured. To confront such issues
adequately requires comparative and contextual evidence.
Post-Holocaust addresses such questions as the place of the
Holocaust in the Nazi project as a whole, the roles of revenge and
forgiveness in post-Holocaust Jewish thinking, Holocaust
commemoration as artifice or "business," and the relationship of
the Holocaust to traditional antisemitism. Lang s analysis provides
an incisive and fruitful basis for confronting these critical
subjects.
Jewish Literature and Culture Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editor"
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