German protestants remember the Holocaust : theology and the construction of collective memory / K. Hannah Holtschneider.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Holtschneider, K. Hannah, 1971-

Series:

Religion, Geschichte, Gesellschaft : fundamentaltheologische Studien ; Bd. 24.

Religion, Geschichte, Gesellschaft : fundamentaltheologische Studien ; Bd. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust (Christian theology).

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

225 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Münster : Lit, [2001]

Summary:

Drawing on the methodology of collective memory this dissertation analyses representations of the Holocaust and Jews in three German Protestant theological texts (Rheinischer Synodalbeschluss 1980, F.-W. Marquardt's Von Elend und Heimsuchung der Theologie and B. Jungst's Auf der Seite des Todes das Leben). The analysis of these texts is informed by the development of narratives of collective memory of the Holocaust in German society in the 1980s and 1990s (the miniseries Holocaust and Heimat, the Bitburg Controversy, the Historikerstreit and the Goldhagen Controversy) and by the study of generational transmission of Holocaust memory in the third generation of non-Jewish Germans. In particular, the paradigms generated by Christian reflection on the Holocaust and Jews and their consequences for current Christian-Jewish relations in Germany are addressed. The theological narrative of this study becomes increasingly complex through the inclusion of social and generational issues of Holocaust remembrance in Germany.

Contents:

2 Methodology 15

2.1 Communities of memory 21

I The Evangelical Church in the Rhineland - Instituting Christian-Jewish conversations 25

1 Approaches of Christian churches to Christian-Jewish relations since 1945 26

2 Approaches of Protestant churches to Christian-Jewish relations in Germany 37

3 The statement of the Rhineland synod: Towards a renewal of the relationship of Christians and Jews (1980) 39

3.1 The Holocaust 44

3.2 The Christian-Jewish relationship 51

II From Holocaust to Goldhagen - Exemplary debates on the memory of the Holocaust in the last two decades 63

1 Holocaust and Heimat - Staging the opposition of Jewish and German memories 65

1.1 Holocaust 65

1.2 Heimat 69

2 The Bitburg Controversy and the Historikerstreit - Usable pasts 77

2.1 The Bitburg Controversy 77

2.2 The Historikerstreit 82

3 The Goldhagen Controversy - Owning the past 91

III Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt - Re-centring Christian theology on Jews 105

1 Theology after the Holocaust - Reading the "signs of the times" and (re)discovering Jews 107

2 Representing the Holocaust and Jews - Consequences 119

2.1 The Holocaust 119

2.2 The Christian-Jewish relationship 132

IV Generations of memory 143

1 Research on the generational transmission of Holocaust memory 144

1.1 Defining generations 149

1.2 Research on the third generation 150

2 Cross-cultural encounters of Germans and Jews - Challenging discourses of memory and facilitating remembrance 156

2.1 Guilt 157

2.2 "Conspiracy of silence" 161

2.3 A town "free of Jews" 164

V Britta Jungst - Conversational theology 171

1 Difference and equality - Formulating experiences theologically 172

2 Representing the Holocaust and Jews - Traditions of victims and victimisers 178

2.1 The Holocaust 180

2.2 The Christian-Jewish relationship 188.

Notes:

Thesis (doctoral) - University of Birmingham, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-225).

ISBN:

3825855392

OCLC:

49333420