Scholars, survivors, and other interested parties have offered,
over the years, their own interpretations of the meaning of the
Holocaust and the lessons we can learn from it. However, the quest
to find a rational explanation for this seemingly irrational course
of events has led to both controversy and continued efforts at
assigning meaning to this most horrible of events. Examining oral
histories provided by survivors, written accounts and explanations,
scholarly analysis, and commonly held assumptions, Bolkosky
challenges the usual collection of platitudes about the lessons or
the meanings we can derive from the Holocaust. Indeed, he argues
against the kind of reductionism that such a quest for meaning has
led to, and he analyzes the nature of the perpetrators in order to
support his position on the inconclusivity of the study of the
Holocaust.
Dealing with the perpetrators of the Holocaust as manifestations
of twentieth century civilized trends foreseen by the likes of
Kafka, Ortega y Gassett, Arthur Koestler and Max Weber, Bolkosky
suggests a new nature of evil and criminality along the lines
developed by Hannah Arendt, Raul Hilberg, and Richard Rosenstein.
Woven into the fabric of the text are insights from literary and
historical writers, sociologists, and philosophers. This
interdisciplinary attempt to shed new light on efforts to determine
the meanings and lessons of the Holocaust provides readers with a
challenging approach to considering the oral histories of survivors
and the popular and professional assumptions surrounding this
devastating moment in history.
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