Repentance for the Holocaust : : Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past / / C. K. Martin Chung.

In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung 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." Chu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The German Problem of Vergangenheitsbewältigung
  • Part I. The Jewish Device of Repentance: From Individual, Divine-Human to Interhuman, Collective "Turning"
  • Part II. Mutual-Turning in German Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Responses and Correspondence
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index