Repentance for the Holocaust C.K. Martin Chung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chung, C. K. Martin, author.

, Cornell University Library, Author.

Contributor:

Cornell University. Library, funder.

Series:

Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public opinion--Germany.

Public opinion.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects--Germany.

Historiography.

Memory--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Memory.

Repentance--Judaism.

Repentance.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages) : illustration.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 2017

Ithaca : Cornell University Library, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

C. K. Martin Chung is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Summary:

"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"-- Publisher's Web site.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501707612

1501707612

9781501712531

1501712535

OCLC:

1080549285