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Losing Trust in the World

Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture

By Leonard Grob, John K. Roth

In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was...

Facing Death

Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves

By Sarah K. Pinnock

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...

Different Horrors, Same Hell

Gender and the Holocaust

By Myrna Goldenberg, Amy Shapiro

Different Horrors, Same Hell brings together a variety of essays demonstrating the breadth of contributions that feminist theory and gender analysis make to the study of the Holocaust. The collection provides new perspectives on central...

Encountering the Stranger

A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue

By Leonard Grob, John K. Roth

In an age when "collisions of faith" among the Abrahamic traditions continue to produce strife and violence that threatens the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide, the contributors to Encountering the Stranger--six Jewish, six Christian,...

Disappearing Traces

Holocaust Testimonials, Ethics, and Aesthetics

By Dorota Glowacka

In Disappearing Traces, Dorota Glowacka examines the tensions between the ethical and aesthetic imperatives in literary, artistic, and philosophical works about the Holocaust, in a search for new ways to understand the traumatic past and...