Bøger i Religion, Theology and the Holocaust serien

The Erie Canal Reader-poems, essays, travelogues, and fiction by major American and British writers-captures the colorful landscape and life along the Erie Canal from its birth in the New York frontier, through its heyday as a passage of culture and commerce, to its present decline into disuse. Part celebration of the men and women who worked its waters and part social observation, these writings by such figures as Basil Hall, Frances Trollope, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and others provide first-hand observations of the canal country and its role in the evolution of American social and economic culture from frontier to industrial prominence. In addition to depictions of canal life, the pieces offer glimpses of early tourist resorts, like Trenton Falls, and observations of religious experiments that made New York's "e;burned over district"e; a hotbed of social and political reform. Also included are works by the most prominent Erie Canal writers, Walter D. Edmonds and Samuel Hopkins Adams, whose stories and novels bring a modern sensibility and insight to their reflections on the canal.

1943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details "life" in the infamous death camp, and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil.

This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust and the memories associated with it, in affirmation of both continuities and violent endings.

The story of Lowys life and thought, as told in his own words and those of other survivors, is also a part of a larger story, the story of social work history, Jewish history, and the meaning of the Holocaust in the development of the social work profession.

Nitzotz is the only known Hebrew-language publication to have appeared consistently throughout the Nazi occupation anywhere in Europe. This title presents this remarkable document to English readers. Along with a translation of the five remaining Dachau-Kaufering issues, it includes an extensive critical introduction.

Focuses on George Steiner's neglected writings on the Holocaust and antisemitism and places this work at the centre of an analysis of his criticism. It clearly demonstrates how Steiner's family history and education, as well as the historical and cultural developments that surrounded him, are central to the evolution of his dominant intellectual concerns.

Forced to fight other Jews in bare-knuckle bouts for the perverse entertainment of SS officers, Harry quickly learned that his own survival depended on his ability to fight and win. Presenting a story of endurance, desperation, and love, this title provides the first-hand testimony of the author's father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim.

Emil Fackenheim was the last in a long line of Jewish philosophers to emerge from Germany, the modern center of Western philosophy, following Moses Mendelssohn, Leo Baeck, and Martin Buber. This book explores Fackenheim's rigorous pursuit of a philosophical response to the tragedy of the Holocaust.

This work tells the story of how George Mantello - First Secretary of the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva from 1942 to 1945 - defied censorship to launch a press campaign against the daily deportation of 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz.

A country known for its benevolent treatment of ethnic minorities, Estonia had a small number of indigenous Jews, and anti-Semitism existed on a relatively limited scale. However, many ethnic Estonians, participated in the murder of thousands of Estonian, Czech, and German Jews. This title presents a study of Estonians' role in the Holocaust.

Since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. Contributors provide case studies that include a artists from North America, Europe and Israel, and examine some of the dominant themes of their work.

Explores the lives of heralded Holocaust rescuers Andre and Magda Trocme, and the people of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon France who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis.

A Holocaust memoir of Helena Ganor that narrates her story through a series of letters to the significant people in her life during her wartime girlhood: her sister, mother, father, and stepmother. Both Ganor's mother and sister perished during the Holocaust.

Recounts the plight of Budapest's Jews, deportation to Mutthausen with her husband, and enslavement at Ravensbruck, a notorious concentration camp for women. This work also chronicles evil, kindness at great risk, and courage among women in a prefeminist world.

An account that gives attention to the author's experience among pre-dominantly non-Jewish partisans in Soviet Russia, where he confronted anti-Semitism while facing a common enemy. In this memoir, the author examines Jewish existence in prewar and wartime Poland.

Unlike many Holocaust books, which deal primarily with the concentration camps, this book focuses on Jewish life before Jews lost their autonomy and fell totally under Nazi power. These essays concern various aspects of Jewish daily life and governance.

Based on a three-day symposium, ""The Claims of Memory,"" this book conveys the omnipresence of memory in Elie Wiesel's writing and attempts to preserve the flavor of the exchange that took place. It also represents several intersecting approaches to memory.

Written by both Jewish and Christian scholars, these essays focus on the Christian responses to Nazism and delineate the roles that individuals and their churches played in confronting Hitler.

The story of how three young Polish Jewish women attempt to resurrect their lives in the bitter aftermath of World War II. After years in a concentration camp, their search for freedom bears fruit in the promise of a Jewish homeland. But pioneering Israel means new hardships.

These are the recollections of a Jewish boy, Norman Salsitz, in a pre-war Polish village, of his scramble to survive the Holocaust and of his adventures in America. In America, Salsitz found that the very traits that saw him through the war enabled him to prosper in his adopted land.

When World War II erupted in Europe, Konrad Charmatz was a prospering businessman in Sosnowiec, Poland, a loving son and an aspiring poet. For the next seven years he witnesses the Holocaust as it destroyed his family, country and culture. This is his memoir of those years.

An examination of the recorded memoirs of 50 Holocaust survivors. Patterson draws on the sacred texts of Jewish tradition and the philosophy of Fackenheim and Levinas. He discusses the recovery of tradition, recovery seen as recovery from illness, and recovery as a process which has no resolution.

Kramer presents the horror of the genocide and the spirit of those who resisted in this collection of poems. Placing each group in historic and literary context with introductory essays, the poets - originally writing in Yiddish - speak from the ghettos, way-stations, and the death camps.

This work is an analysis of the ideology, causal patterns, and means employed in the Nazi genocide against the Jews. It argues that the events of the genocide compel reconsideration of such moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, and the role of knowledge in ethical decisions.

A collection of poems written in Jewish ghettos, way stations, death camps and forests under the nightmarish circumstances of the Holocaust.