Repentance for the Holocaust : Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past /
"Develops the biblical idea of "turning" (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as Vergangenheitsbewältigung or "coming to terms with the past." Chung examines a selection of German responses to...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Library,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Turning in the God-human relationship
- Interhuman and collective repentance
- People, not devils
- Fascism was the great apostasy
- The French must love the German spirit now entrusted to them
- One cannot speak of injustice without raising the question of guilt
- You won't believe how thankful I am for what you have said
- Courage to say no and still more courage to say yes
- Raise our voice, both Jews and Germans
- The appropriateness of each proposition depends upon who utters it
- Hitler is in ourselves, too
- I am Germany
- Know before whom you will have to give an account
- We take over the guilt of the fathers
- Remember the evil, but do not forget the good
- We are not authorized to forgive.