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Post-Holocaust Struggles with Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Justice

By David Patterson, John K. Roth

More than fifty years after it ended, the Holocaust continues to leave survivors and their descendants, as well as historians, philosophers, and theologians, searching for words to convey the enormity of that event. Efforts to...

Along the Edge of Annihilation

The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary

By David Patterson

This extraordinary book is based on more than fifty diaries of Jewish Holocaust victims of all ages, written while the events described were actually taking place. Many of the writers did not survive. Patterson’s book...

Open Wounds

The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

By David Patterson

In this book, David Patterson sets out to describe why Jews must live -- but especially think -- in a way that is distinctly Jewish.

For Patterson, the primary responsibility of post-Holocaust Jewish thought is to...

Fire in the Ashes

God, Evil, and the Holocaust

By David Patterson, John K. Roth

Sixty years after it ended, the Holocaust continues to leave survivors and their descendants, as well as historians, philosophers, and theologians, pondering the enormity of that event. This book explores how inquiry about the Holocaust...