%0 Book
%T Repentance for the Holocaust: lessons from Jewish thought for confronting the German past
%A Chung, C. K. Martin
%S Signale modern German letters, cultures, and thought
%D 2017
%7 First published
%I Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
%C Ithaca
%@ 9781501707612
%G English
%F 888053754
%O C.K. Martin Chung
%O Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-348) and index
%O DE-32 Exemplarsatz-ID: 3755889447, Signatur: B2 C559 Sammlung: Sammlung Buchenwald der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek ; http://d-nb.info/gnd/1158507305
%O Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet SLG XA-DE-BW BfZ pdager DE-24
%X "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 the Nazi past, their interaction with the victims' responses, such as those from Jewish individuals, and their correspondence with biblical repentance. In demonstrating the victims' influence on German responses, Chung asserts that the phenomenon of Vergangenheitsbewältigung can best be understood in a relational, rather than a national, paradigm"--
%L 940.53/18
%K Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
%K Moral and ethical aspects
%K Influence
%K Repentance
%K Judaism
%K Memory
%K Religious aspects
%K Historiography
%K Germany
%K Public opinion, German
%K Public opinion
%9 Text