Problems unique to the Holocaust
In Problems Unique to the Holocaust, today's leading Holocaust scholars examine the difficult questions surrounding this terrible chapter in world history. Is it ever legitimate to betray others to save yourself? If a group of Jews is hiding behind a wall and a baby begins to cry, should an adult smother the child to protect the safety of the others? Should the men and women who took their own lives in the face of the Nazi onslaught be considered suicide or murder victims? How guilty are the by…
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- Full title :Problems unique to the Holocaust / Harry James Cargas, editor.
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In Problems Unique to the Holocaust, today's leading Holocaust scholars examine the difficult questions surrounding this terrible chapter in world history. Is it ever legitimate to betray others to save yourself? If a group of Jews is hiding behind a wall and a baby begins to cry, should an adult smother the child to protect the safety of the others? Should the men and women who took their own lives in the face of the Nazi onslaught be considered suicide or murder victims? How guilty are the bystanders who saw what was happening but did nothing to aid the victims of persecution?
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- Publication Date:©1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University Press of Kentucky
- Place of Publication:Lexington? Ky
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 198 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0813121019, 9780813121017, 0813190487, 9780813190488
- oclc:ocm39897320
- LC Classification:D804.3
- Dewey Decimal:940.53/18
Table of Contents
Can betrayal ever be legitimate? / Steven L. Jacobs -- The moral dilemma of motherhood in the Nazi death camps / David Patterson -- Holocaust victims of privilege / Susan L. Pentlin -- Suicides or murders? / Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann -- Holocaust suicides / Jack Nusan Porter -- Victims of evil or evil of victims / Didier Pollefeyt -- Medicine in the shadow of Nuremberg / Diane M. Plotkin -- Is objectivity morally defensible in discussing the holocaust? / Robert S. Frey -- Indifferent accomplices / Eric Sterling -- Intruding on private grief / Alastair G. Hunter -- Christians as holocaust scholars / Leon Stein -- Art after Auschwitz / Stephen C. Feinstein -- Reflections on post- holocaust ethics / John K. Roth -- Afterword / Harry James Cargas.
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