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Searching for Meaning in the Holocaust

by Sidney M. Bolkosky
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780313307645
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Praeger
  • Publisher Imprint: Praeger
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 152
  • Original Price: GBP 60.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 295 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History, and Comparative Religion

Scholars, survivors, and other interested parties have offered, over the years, their own interpretations of the meaning of the Holocaust and the lessons we can learn from it. However, the quest to find a rational explanation for this seemingly irrational course of events has led to both controversy and continued efforts at assigning meaning to this most horrible of events. Examining oral histories provided by survivors, written accounts and explanations, scholarly analysis, and commonly held assumptions, Bolkosky challenges the usual collection of platitudes about the lessons or the meanings we can derive from the Holocaust. Indeed, he argues against the kind of reductionism that such a quest for meaning has led to, and he analyzes the nature of the perpetrators in order to support his position on the inconclusivity of the study of the Holocaust.

Dealing with the perpetrators of the Holocaust as manifestations of twentieth century civilized trends foreseen by the likes of Kafka, Ortega y Gassett, Arthur Koestler and Max Weber, Bolkosky suggests a new nature of evil and criminality along the lines developed by Hannah Arendt, Raul Hilberg, and Richard Rosenstein. Woven into the fabric of the text are insights from literary and historical writers, sociologists, and philosophers. This interdisciplinary attempt to shed new light on efforts to determine the meanings and lessons of the Holocaust provides readers with a challenging approach to considering the oral histories of survivors and the popular and professional assumptions surrounding this devastating moment in history.

Bolkosky, Sidney M.: -

SIDNEY M. BOLKOSKY is a modern European intellectual historian. He has written on the history of psychoanalysis, German literature, German Jews in the Weimar Republic, and was the principle co-author of Life Unworthy of Life: A Holocaust Curriculum. He is director of the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Project at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and is a faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor. He began interviewing survivors in 1981.

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