Remembering For The Future The Impact Of The Holocaust On The Contemporary World

Author : Yehuda Bauer
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019221012

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Remembering for the Future: The impact of the Holocaust on the contemporary world by Yehuda Bauer Pdf

A collection of working papers and addresses discussed at the international interfaith conference Remembering for the Future: The Impact of the Holocaust and Genocide on Jews and Christians . This three-volume work representing the current state of Holocaust research, is an invaluable source for those involved in researching and teaching this and related subjects.The papers focus on two main themes: Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust and The impact of the Holocaust on the contemporary world and represent the views of scholars from all over the world. It is intended that these volumes will be productive of new perspectives, new research, expanded sensitivity to fears and dangers experienced by many people and greater awareness in our cultures, religious faiths, scientific thinking and technological-managerial decision-making of actions that may have genocidal consequences.

Author : J. Roth,E. Maxwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 2256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781349660193

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Remembering for the Future by J. Roth,E. Maxwell Pdf

Focused on 'The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide', Remembering for the Future brings together the work of nearly 200 scholars from more than 30 countries and features cutting-edge scholarship across a range of disciplines, amounting to the most extensive and powerful reassessment of the Holocaust ever undertaken. In addition to its international scope, the project emphasizes that varied disciplinary perspectives are needed to analyze and to check the genocidal forces that have made the Twentieth century so deadly. Historians and ethicists, psychologists and literary scholars, political scientists and theologians, sociologists and philosophers - all of these, and more, bring their expertise to bear on the Holocaust and genocide. Their contributions show the new discoveries that are being made and the distinctive approaches that are being developed in the study of genocide, focusing both on archival and oral evidence, and on the religious and cultural representation of the Holocaust.

Author : Bell Simon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1399012096

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Remembering the Holocaust and the Impact on Societies Today by Bell Simon Pdf

The Holocaust is the most researched and written about genocide in history. Known facts should be beyond dispute. Yet Holocaust memory is often formed and dictated by governments and others with an agenda to fulfil, or by deniers who seek to rewrite the past due to vested interests and avowed prejudices. Legislation can be used to prosecute hate crime and genocide denial, but it has also been created to protect the reputation of nation states and the inhabitants of countries previously occupied and oppressed by the regime of Nazi Germany.The crimes of the Holocaust are, of course, rightly seen mainly as the work of the Nazi regime, but there is a reality that some citizens of subjugated lands participated in, colluded and collaborated with those crimes, and on occasion committed crimes and atrocities against Jews independently of the Nazis. Others facilitated and enabled the Nazis by allowing industries to work with the Germans; some showed hostility, indifference and reluctance to assist Jewish refugees, or, due to antipathy, apathy, greed, self-interest or out-and-out anti-Semitism they allowed or even encouraged barbaric and cruel crimes to take place.Survivors of the Holocaust often express a primary desire that lessons of the past must be learned in order to reduce the risk of similar crimes reoccurring. Yet anti-Semitism is still a toxin in the modern world, and racism and hostility to other communities - including those who suffer in or have fled war and oppression - can at times appear normalised and socially acceptable. This book seeks to explore aspects of the Holocaust as it is remembered and reflect ultimately on parallels with the world we live in today.

Author : John-Paul Himka,Joanna Beata Michlic
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496210203

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Bringing the Dark Past to Light by John-Paul Himka,Joanna Beata Michlic Pdf

Despite the Holocaust's profound impact on the history of Eastern Europe, the communist regimes successfully repressed public discourse about and memory of this tragedy. Since the collapse of communism in 1989, however, this has changed. Not only has a wealth of archival sources become available, but there have also been oral history projects and interviews recording the testimonies of eyewitnesses who experienced the Holocaust as children and young adults. Recent political, social, and cultural developments have facilitated a more nuanced and complex understanding of the continuities and discontinuities in representations of the Holocaust. People are beginning to realize the significant role that memory of Holocaust plays in contemporary discussions of national identity in Eastern Europe. This volume of original essays explores the memory of the Holocaust and the Jewish past in postcommunist Eastern Europe. Devoting space to every postcommunist country, the essays in Bringing the Dark Past to Light explore how the memory of the "dark pasts" of Eastern European nations is being recollected and reworked. In addition, it examines how this memory shapes the collective identities and the social identity of ethnic and national minorities. Memory of the Holocaust has practical implications regarding the current development of national cultures and international relationships.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024824862

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Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust by Anonim Pdf

Author : John K. Roth,Elisabeth Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : UCAL:B4918471

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Remembering for the Future: Memory by John K. Roth,Elisabeth Maxwell Pdf

V. 1. History -- v.2. Ethics and religion -- v.3. Memory.

Author : Yifat Gutman,Adam D. Brown,Amy Sodaro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230292338

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Memory and the Future by Yifat Gutman,Adam D. Brown,Amy Sodaro Pdf

For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars who bring the future into the study of memory.

Author : Facing History and Ourselves
Publisher : Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation, Incorporated
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1940457181

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Holocaust and Human Behavior by Facing History and Ourselves Pdf

Holocaust and Human Behavior uses readings, primary source material, and short documentary films to examine the challenging history of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our world today

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Christianity and antisemitism
ISBN : UOM:39015021912756

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Remembering for the Future: The impact of the Holocaust and genocide on Jews and Christians by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Martin Jay
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195326222

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Remembering the Holocaust by Jeffrey C. Alexander,Martin Jay Pdf

This book brings together a wide range of leading historians, social scientists, and literary scholars to explore the controversy surrounding the legacy of the Holocaust. Jeffrey Alexander's essay traces how the Holocaust gradually became the dominant representation of evil, and what the consequences have been for the development of its moral relevance for all nations and peoples. His inquiry is joined by essays from Martin Jay, Nathan Glazer, Elihu and Ruth Katz, Michael Rothberg, Robert Manne, and Bernhard Giesen, who further debate the geopolitical, national, and cultural limits and dangers of extending the tragic lessons of the Holocaust.

Author : Zehavit Gross,E. Doyle Stevick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319154190

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As the Witnesses Fall Silent: 21st Century Holocaust Education in Curriculum, Policy and Practice by Zehavit Gross,E. Doyle Stevick Pdf

This volume represents the most comprehensive collection ever produced of empirical research on Holocaust education around the world. It comes at a critical time, as the world observes the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We are now at a turning point, as the generations that witnessed and survived the Shoah are slowly passing on. Governments are charged with ensuring that this defining event of the 20th century takes its rightful place in the schooling and the historical consciousness of their peoples. The policies and practices of Holocaust education around the world are as diverse as the countries that grapple with its history and its meaning. Educators around the globe struggle to reconcile national histories and memories with the international realities of the Holocaust and its implications for the present. These efforts take place at a time when scholarship about the Holocaust itself has made great strides. In this book, these issues are framed by some of the leading voices in the field, including Elie Wiesel and Yehuda Bauer, and then explored by many distinguished scholars who represent a wide range of expertise. Holocaust education is of such significance, so rich in meaning, so powerful in content, and so diverse in practice that the need for extensive, high-quality empirical research is critical. Th is book provides exactly that.

Author : Esther Jilovsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780936116

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Remembering the Holocaust by Esther Jilovsky Pdf

An intriguing analysis of how place constructs memory and how memory constructs place, Remembering the Holocaust shows how visiting sites such as Auschwitz shapes the transfer of Holocaust memory from one generation to the next. Through the discussion of a range of memoirs and novels, including Landscapes of Memory by Ruth Kluger, Too Many Men by Lily Brett, The War After by Anne Karpf and Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Remembering the Holocaust reveals the pivotal yet complicated role of place in each generation's writing about the Holocaust. This book provides an insightful and nuanced investigation of the effect of the Holocaust upon families, from survivors of the genocide to members of the second and even third generations of families involved. By deploying an innovative combination of generational and literary study of Holocaust survivor families focussed on place, Remembering the Holocaust makes an important contribution to the field of Holocaust Studies that will be of interest to scholars and anyone interested in Holocaust remembrance.

Author : Leon I. Yudkin,International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0838634990

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Hebrew Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust by Leon I. Yudkin,International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization Pdf

Although writers have encountered difficulty in finding the appropriate medium for the transcription of the Holocaust experience, the Holocaust has become a major theme in Hebrew literature. This volume seeks to examine the ways in which the experience has been approached and conveyed to the reader by Israeli writing.

Author : J. Roth,E. Maxwell
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 2256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0333804864

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Remembering for the Future by J. Roth,E. Maxwell Pdf

Focused on 'The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide', Remembering for the Future brings together the work of nearly 200 scholars from more than 30 countries and features cutting-edge scholarship across a range of disciplines, amounting to the most extensive and powerful reassessment of the Holocaust ever undertaken. In addition to its international scope, the project emphasizes that varied disciplinary perspectives are needed to analyze and to check the genocidal forces that have made the Twentieth century so deadly. Historians and ethicists, psychologists and literary scholars, political scientists and theologians, sociologists and philosophers - all of these, and more, bring their expertise to bear on the Holocaust and genocide. Their contributions show the new discoveries that are being made and the distinctive approaches that are being developed in the study of genocide, focusing both on archival and oral evidence, and on the religious and cultural representation of the Holocaust.

Author : Rochelle L. Millen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780814755402

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New Perspectives on the Holocaust by Rochelle L. Millen Pdf

Authors involved in teaching about the Holocaust offer guidance and confront issues related to teaching about the Holocaust.