Sources of Holocaust Insight
Learning and Teaching about the Genocide
John K. Roth
Sources of Holocaust Insight
Learning and Teaching about the Genocide
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Names: Roth, John K., author.
Title: Sources of Holocaust insight: learning and teaching about the genocide / John K. Roth.
Description: Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: isbn: 978-1-5326-7418-1 (paperback). | isbn: 978-1-5326-7419-8 (hardcover). | isbn: 978-1-5326-7420-4 (ebook).
Subjects: LCSH: Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945). | Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Moral and ethical aspects. | Rubenstein, Richard L. | Wiesel, Elie, 1928–2016—Criticism and interpretation. | Littell, Franklin H. (Franklin Hamlin), 1917–2009. | Hilberg, Raul, 1926–2007. | Kofman, Sarah. | Delbo, Charlotte—Criticism and interpretation. | Camus, Albert, 1913–1960—Criticism and interpretation. | Levi, Primo. | Améry, Jean.
Classification: BJ1031 .R75 2020 (print). | BJ1031 (ebook).
Manufactured in the U.S.A.04/02/20
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In Memoriam
My Parents, Doris and Josiah
and to
My Students
Whatever else you get, get insight.
—Proverbs 4:7, NRSV
Acknowledgments
This book recognizes people who have profoundly influenced the learning and teaching about the Holocaust that I have been doing for more than fifty years. My parents, Doris and Josiah, top that list. Dedicated to them, Sources of Holocaust Insight is also for my students, who have taught me in irreplaceable ways.
Support, inspiration, love—these gifts, sources of deep insight, have been abundantly bestowed upon me, day in and day out, by my wife, Lyn, my children, Andy and Sarah, and their spouses, Liz and Erik, and by a most special person, my granddaughter, Keeley Brooks. In addition, valued guidance and needed encouragement have been generously supplied by my editor, K. C. Hanson, his colleagues Jeremy Funk, Ian Creeger, Daniel Lanning, and Matthew Wimer—and the entire, highly capable team at Cascade Books.
As the book developed, I increasingly appreciated that my sources of Holocaust insight ...
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About Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the GenocideSources of Holocaust Insight maps the odyssey of an American Christian philosopher who has studied, written, and taught about the Holocaust for more than fifty years. What findings result from John Roth's journey; what moods pervade it? How have events and experiences, scholars and students, texts and testimonies--especially the questions they raise--affected Roth's Holocaust studies and guided his efforts to heed the biblical proverb: "Whatever else you get, get insight"? More sources than Roth can acknowledge have informed his encounters with the Holocaust. But particular persons--among them Elie Wiesel, Raul Hilberg, Primo Levi, and Albert Camus--loom especially large. Revisiting Roth's sources of Holocaust insight, this book does so not only to pay tribute to them but also to show how the ethical, philosophical, and religious reverberations of the Holocaust confer and encourage responsibility for human well-being in the twenty-first century. Seeing differently, seeing better--sound learning and teaching about the Holocaust aim for what may be the most important Holocaust insight of all: Take nothing good for granted. |
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