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From the Unthinkable to the Unavoidable: American Christian and Jewish Scholars Encounter the Holocaust: 48 (Contributions to the Study of Religion: Christianity and the) - Hardcover

 
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Synopsis

In the last half century, ways of thinking about the Holocaust have changed somewhat dramatically. In this volume, noted scholars reflect on how their own thinking about the Holocaust has changed over the years. In their personal stories they confront the questions that the Holocaust has raised for them and explore how these questions have been evolving. Contributors include John T. Pawlikowski, Richard L. Rubenstein, Michael Berenbaum, and Eva Fleischner.

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About the Authors

Carol Rittner is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Raticoff Grossman Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Richard Stockton University of New Jersey, USA.

John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College, where he taught from 1966 through 2006. His numerous books include Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide (Palgrave Macmillan), Ethics During and After the Holocaust: In the Shadow of Birkenau (Palgrave Macmillan), and The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (Oxford University Press). In 1988, Roth was named U.S. National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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