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Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves (Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies)
Pinnock
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Description for Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves (Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies)
Paperback. Editor(s): Pinnock, Sarah K. Series: Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JFSR1; JHBZ; JMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
What do we learn about death from the Holocaust and how does it impact our responses to mortality today? Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves brings together the work of eleven Holocaust and genocide scholars who address these difficult questions, convinced of the urgency of further reflection on the Holocaust as the last survivors pass away. The volume is distinctive in its dialogical and introspective approach, where the contributors position themselves to confront their own impending death while listening to the voices of victims and learning from their life experiences. Broken into three parts, this collection engages with these voices in a way that is not only scholarly, but deeply personal. The first part of the book engages with Holocaust testimony by drawing on the writings of survivors and witnesses such as Elie Wiesel, Jean Amery, and Charlotte Delbo, including rare accounts from members of the Sonderkommando. Reflections of post-Holocaust generations-the children and grandchildren of survivors-are housed in the second part, addressing questions of remembrance and memorialization. The concluding essays offer intimate self-reflection about how engagement with the Holocaust impacts the contributors' lives, faiths, and ethics. In an age of continuing atrocities, this volume provides careful attention to the affective dimension of coping with death, in particular, how loss and grief are deferred or denied, narrated, and passed along.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies
Condition
New
Weight
329g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295999272
SKU
V9780295999272
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About Pinnock
Sarah K. Pinnock is professor and chair of religion at Trinity University. She is the author of Beyond Theodicy: Jewish and Christian Continental Thinkers Respond to the Holocaust and editor of The Theology of Dorothee Soelle. The other contributors are Michael Dobkowski, Myrna Goldenberg, Leonard Grob, Rochelle L. Millen, David Patterson, Didier Pollefeyt, John K. Roth, H. Martin Rumscheidt, Amy H. Shapiro, and Lissa Skitolsky.
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