Approaches to Auschwitz

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APPROACHES TO AUSCHWITZ: THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS LEGACY RICHÁRD L. RUBENSTEIN and JOHN K. ROTH "Approaches to Auschwitz is more than merely a useful book; it is a necessary one. Rubenstein and Roth fulfill to a remarkable degree their originál intention to create 'a unifying work on the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews.' I know of no other work that has quite its breadth and depth. This is an invaluable contribution." -Chaim Potok, author of The Book ofLights and The Chosen Approaches to Auschwitz is unique. No single work covers so much ground. The book is complete . . . sensitive and fair . . . exceptional as a work of theology . . . authoritative in its treatment of early Christianity and the Christian-Jewish relationship ... A masterful guide to contemporary Christian writings on the Holocaust. It breaks new ground in post-Holocaust Jewish theology. Humane, brilliant and insightful. Approaches to Auschwitz is unlike any other work on the Holocaust. It should become a standard... Tovább

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APPROACHES TO AUSCHWITZ: THE HOLOCAUST AND ITS LEGACY RICHÁRD L. RUBENSTEIN and JOHN K. ROTH "Approaches to Auschwitz is more than merely a useful book; it is a necessary one. Rubenstein and Roth fulfill to a remarkable degree their originál intention to create 'a unifying work on the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews.' I know of no other work that has quite its breadth and depth. This is an invaluable contribution." -Chaim Potok, author of The Book ofLights and The Chosen Approaches to Auschwitz is unique. No single work covers so much ground. The book is complete . . . sensitive and fair . . . exceptional as a work of theology . . . authoritative in its treatment of early Christianity and the Christian-Jewish relationship ... A masterful guide to contemporary Christian writings on the Holocaust. It breaks new ground in post-Holocaust Jewish theology. Humane, brilliant and insightful. Approaches to Auschwitz is unlike any other work on the Holocaust. It should become a standard for college courses and a must for scholars and laypeople alike." -Michael Berenbaum, Department of Theology, Georgetown University Approaches to Auschwitz "seems destined to remain for a long time to come as the outstanding single narrative of the Holocaust: the standard against which all others will be measured." -Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies "Among recent efforts to fathom the meaning of the holocaust, this volume must be ranked among the select few designated as the best." -Religious Studies Review RICHÁRD L. RUBENSTEIN is President of the University of Connecticut in Bridgeport and President of the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy. Formerly, he was Professor of Religion at Florida State University. In September 1987 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the school from which he received the M.H.L. prior to rabbinic ordination. He alsó holds S.T.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. He is author of seven books, including After Auschwitz: Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism, which Newsweek described as "one of the most radical Jewish interpretations of the Holocaust." JOHN K. ROTH is Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. He received post-doctoral appointments as a Graves Fellow in the Humanities, a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and as a Fellow of the National Humanities Institute at Yale. He was a visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has authored more than 100 articles and books, including American Dreams: Meditations of Life in the United States and The Questions of Philosophy (with Frederick Sontag). Vissza