Facing Death Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves / edited and introduced by Sarah K. Pinnock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pinnock, Sarah Katherine, editor.

Series:

Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies.

The Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychological aspects.

Mortality.

Death--Psychological aspects.

Children of Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Children of Holocaust survivors--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Death.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, [Washington] ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press, 2017.

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:

Holocaust victims speak; do we listen? / Leonard Grob

Dying in the death camps as acts of defiance / H. Martin Rumscheidt

At what cost survival? The problem of the prisoner-functionary / Lissa Skitolsky

Witnessing unrelenting grief / Myrna Goldenberg

Living for: Holocaust survivors and their adult children encounter death and mortality / Michael Dobkowski

Bearing witness to a grotesque land / Amy H. Shapiro

Melding generations: a meditation on memory and mortality / Rochelle L. Millen

Experiences of death: our mortality and the Holocaust / Sarah K. Pinnock

A Jewish reflection on the Nazis' assault on death / David Patterson

Auschwitz and Hiroshima as challenges to a belief in the afterlife: a Catholic perspective / Didier Pollefeyt

Facing death: what happens to the Holocaust if death is the last word? / John K. Roth.

Notes:

"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295999289

0295999284

OCLC:

962752145