Facing Death : Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pinnock, Sarah Katherine (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Psychological aspects.
Children of Holocaust survivors > Personal narratives.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives.
Mortality.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Tod
Sterblichkeit
Judenvernichtung
Psychological aspects.
Children of Holocaust survivors.
Personal narratives.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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