The Uses and Abuses of Knowledge Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the German Church Struggle

by Knight, Henry F.; Littell, Marcia Sachs; Berenbaum, Michael; Linenthal, Edward; Saidel, Rochelle G.; Milchman, Alan; Rosenberg, Alan; Hirsch, Herbert; Barnett, Victoria; Geldbach, Erich; Burgess, John P.; Barnes, Kenneth; Albracht, Terrence L.; Gushee, Da

• ISBN13: 9780761806295
• ISBN10: 0761806296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-30
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

NOTE Special Title: Studies in the Shoah Series Volume XVII

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi	(2)
Foreword	xiii	(4)
Introduction	xvii
THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM	3	(38)
Chapter 1 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: A Guided Anticipatory Tour	3	(12)
Michael Berenbaum
Chapter 2 Contested Memory, Contested Space: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	15	(12)
Edward Linenthal
Chapter 3 The Genesis of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: A Case Study of the Politics of Memorializing the Holocaust	27	(14)
Rochelle G. Saidel
THE HERMENEUTICS OF MEMORY	41	(52)
Chapter 4 The Problematics of Memory: A Hermeneutical Inquiry Into the Holocaust	41	(12)
Alan Milchman
Alan Rosenberg
Chapter 5 History as Memory: The Influence of Time and Paradigm	53	(14)
Herbert Hirsch
Chapter 6 The Politics of Memory: 1946 and 1992 Parallels between the Denazification Controversy and the Stasi Debate	67	(14)
Victoria Barnett
Chapter 7 Remembering for the Future	81	(12)
Erich Geldbach
KNOWING THE PAST	93	(64)
Chapter 8 Coming to Terms with the Past: The Church and the Stasi	93	(16)
John P. Burgess
Chapter 9 The Lutheran Free Churches and the Third Reich	109	(12)
Kenneth Barnes
Chapter 10 The Moral Imperative of Community Support: An Historical Account of the Rescue Networks in Denmark	121	(16)
Terrance L Albrecht
Chapter 11 A Certain Kind of Faith: Christian Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust	137	(20)
David P. Gushee
NUCLEAR SHADOWS	157	(66)
Chapter 12 From Auschwitz to Hiroshima: Technobureaucratic Rationality and the Myth of Life Through Death	157	(22)
Darrell Fasching
Chapter 13 German "Brain Drain" in Response to Aryan Science: A Case Study of One Background of the Manhattan Project	179	(10)
James Patrick Kelley
Chapter 14 Genocidal Dimensions of the Atomic Bombs?	189	(18)
Eric Markusen
Chapter 15 A Child of the Bomb: Reflections on War and the Nuclear Age	207	(16)
Richard V. Pierard
POST-SHOAH KNOWING AND PRAXIS	223	(72)
Chapter 16 Higher Education in the Shadows of the Holocaust	223	(24)
Leonard Grob
Chapter 17 Women, Suffering, and the Problem of Evil	247	(8)
Carol Rittner
Chapter 18 Wrestling with Two Texts: Genesis 32:22-33 and Matthew 26:36-46 -- A Morning Roundtable	255	(18)
James F. Moore
Chapter 19 Disorder in Order: The Interlocution of Shoah in the Passover Haggadah and Seder	273	(22)
Zev Garber
AESTHETICS AND MEMORY	295	(54)
Chapter 20 Babi Yar Revisited	295	(12)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Chapter 21 Portraits of Two Survivors: A Comparative Study of Elie Wiesel and Aharon Appelfeld	307	(10)
Richard Libowitz
Chapter 22 Tchelitchew, Shahn and Kaliszan: Three Artistic Responses to the Warsaw Ghetto	317	(16)
Stephen C. Feinstein
Chapter 23 "The Story Begins...:" Reflections on Claude Lanzmann's Shoah	333	(16)
Jacob Howland
CURRENT ISSUES	349	(68)
Chapter 24 Holy Wars and Ethnic Cleansing: Report on Research in Progress	349	(30)
Richard L. Rubenstein
Chapter 25 From Incarceration Society to Genocidal Society: Reflections on Civil Wars in Yugoslavia	379	(14)
Damir Mirkovic
Chapter 26 An Use and Abuse of Knowledge: The Holocaust and the Problem of Race	393	(10)
Hubert G. Locke
Chapter 27 The Vatican and the Holocaust: Unresolved Issues	403	(14)
John T. Pawlikowski
KNOWING THE OTHER AND QUESTIONS OF RAPPROCHMENT	417	(34)
Chapter 28 A Post Holocaust Dialogue: Gottfried Wagner and Abraham Peck with a Response by Dan Bar-On Dan Bar-On, Abraham Peck, Gottfried Wagner	417	(14)
Dialogue Questions	417	(2)
Wagner Responds	419	(4)
Gottfried Wagner
The Child Within	423	(5)
Abraham J. Peck
The Gottfried Wagner-Abraham Peck Dialogue as a Microcosm of the German-Jewish Quest for Dialogue Dan Bar-On	428	(3)
Chapter 29 An Encounter Between Children of Survivors and Children of Perpetrators of the Holocaust	431	(10)
Dan Bar-On
Chapter 30 The Dilemma of Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower: A Jewish Perspective	441	(10)
Bernard Weinstein
List of Contributors	451