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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pinnock, Sarah Katherine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies.
Temas:
1939-1945
Death > Psychological aspects.
Mortality.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives.
Children of Holocaust survivors > Personal narratives.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Psychological aspects.
Attitude to Death
Mortality
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
Mortalité.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Récits personnels.
Enfants de survivants de l'Holocauste > Récits personnels.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Aspect psychologique.
mortality.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Lifespan Development.
PSYCHOLOGY > General.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
Children of Holocaust survivors.
Psychological aspects.
Tod
Sterblichkeit
Judenvernichtung
Personal Narrative
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Prologue: Death as Atrocity ; PART I. ENGAGEMENT WITH HOLOCAUST TESTIMONY ; 1 Holocaust Victims Speak; Do We Listen? ; 2 Dying in the Death Camps as Acts of Defiance ; 3 At What Cost Survival? The Problem of the Prisoner-Functionary ; 4 Witnessing Unrelenting Grief.
  • PART II. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS OF MORTALITY 5 Living For: Holocaust Survivors and Their Adult Children Encounter Death and Mortality ; 6 Bearing Witness to a Grotesque Land ; 7 Melding Generations: A Meditation on Memory and Mortality ; PART III. ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS REFLECTION.
  • 8 Experiences of Death: Our Mortality and the Holocaust 9 A Jewish Reflection on the Nazis' Assault on Death ; 10 Auschwitz and Hiroshima as Challenges to a Belief in the Afterlife: A Catholic Perspective ; 11 Facing Death: What Happens to the Holocaust If Death Is the Last Word?
  • Epilogue: Witnessing Mortality Selected Bibliography ; Editors and Contributors ; Index.

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