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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies
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Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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 intimate experiences. Broken in to 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' personal 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Prologue: Death as Atrocity ; PART I. ENGAGEMENT WITH HOLOCAUST TESTIMONY ; 1 Holocaust Victims Speak; Do We Listen? ; 2 Dying in the Death Camps as Acts of Defiance ; 3 At What Cost Survival? The Problem of the Prisoner-Functionary ; 4 Witnessing Unrelenting Grief. |
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PART II. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF MORTALITY 5 Living For: Holocaust Survivors and Their Adult Children Encounter Death and Mortality ; 6 Bearing Witness to a Grotesque Land ; 7 Melding Generations: A Meditation on Memory and Mortality ; PART III. ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS REFLECTION. |
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8 Experiences of Death: Our Mortality and the Holocaust 9 A Jewish Reflection on the Nazis' Assault on Death ; 10 Auschwitz and Hiroshima as Challenges to a Belief in the Afterlife: A Catholic Perspective ; 11 Facing Death: What Happens to the Holocaust If Death Is the Last Word? |
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Epilogue: Witnessing Mortality Selected Bibliography ; Editors and Contributors ; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Death -- Psychological aspects. |
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Mortality.
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Mortality. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives.
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| Subject |
Children of Holocaust survivors -- Personal narratives.
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Children of Holocaust survivors. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychological aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Personal narratives.
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| Added Author |
Pinnock, Sarah Katherine, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Facing death. First edition. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017] 9780295999265 0295999268 (DLC) 2015050878 (OCoLC)934937867 |
| ISBN |
9780295999289 (electronic book) |
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0295999284 (electronic book) |
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9780295999265 |
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0295999268 |
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9780295999272 |
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0295999276 |
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