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Holocaust Representation
At an extreme, all Holocaust representation must face the test of whether its referent would not be more authentically expressed by silence--that is, by the absence of representation.
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Post-Holocaust : interpretation, misinterpretation, and the claims of history
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 who 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.
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Post-Holocaust : interpretation, misinterpretation and the claims of history
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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Heidegger's silence
In What Is Called Thinking, Martin Heidegger wrote, \"Man speaks by being silent.\" Berel Lang demonstrates that Heidegger's own silence spoke consciously and deliberately in response to what has been called the \"Jewish Question.\" Posed simply.
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