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Record Nr.

UNINA9910543732703321

Autore

Chung C. K. Martin

Titolo

Repentance for the Holocaust / C.K. Martin Chung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2017

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Library, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9781501707612

1501707612

9781501712531

1501712535

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages) : illustration

Collana

Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought

Disciplina

940.53/18

Soggetti

Public opinion - Germany

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Public opinion, German

Historiography - Moral and ethical aspects - Germany

Memory - Religious aspects - Judaism

Repentance - Judaism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Influence

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-348) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Turning in the God-human relationship -- Interhuman and collective repentance -- People, not devils -- Fascism was the great apostasy -- The French must love the German spirit now entrusted to them -- One cannot speak of injustice without raising the question of guilt -- You won't believe how thankful I am for what you have said -- Courage to say no and still more courage to say yes -- Raise our voice, both Jews and Germans -- The appropriateness of each proposition depends upon who utters it -- Hitler is in ourselves, too -- I am Germany -- Know before whom you will have to give an account -- We take over the guilt of the fathers -- Remember the evil, but do not forget the good -- We are not authorized to forgive.

Sommario/riassunto

"Develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual



framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection of German responses to the Nazi past, their interaction with the victims' responses, such as those from Jewish individuals, and their correspondence with biblical repentance. In demonstrating the victims' influence on German responses, Chung asserts that the phenomenon of Vergangenheitsbewältigung can best be understood in a relational, rather than a national, paradigm"--