Steven Kepnes
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195313819
- eISBN:
- 9780199785650
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195313819.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
Jewish liturgy helps develop new forms of discourse and theology to respond to the two central events of the contemporary Jewish era: the Shoah and the establishment of the State of Israel. Peter ...
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Jewish liturgy helps develop new forms of discourse and theology to respond to the two central events of the contemporary Jewish era: the Shoah and the establishment of the State of Israel. Peter Ochs argues that modern philosophical logic is limited and must be augmented with a “logic of scripture.” This chapter argues for the power of the “logic of liturgy.” To address the Shoah, the chapter focuses on the liturgical theodicy of the Passover Seder and the synagogue sermon. The State of Israel revives issues of sacred space for Judaism. Part two of the chapter explores the notion of liturgical space as a response to idolatrous and messianic claims by some Zionists for the present State of Israel. Liturgy preserves the messianic character of Israel as a future and not a present reality.Less
Jewish liturgy helps develop new forms of discourse and theology to respond to the two central events of the contemporary Jewish era: the Shoah and the establishment of the State of Israel. Peter Ochs argues that modern philosophical logic is limited and must be augmented with a “logic of scripture.” This chapter argues for the power of the “logic of liturgy.” To address the Shoah, the chapter focuses on the liturgical theodicy of the Passover Seder and the synagogue sermon. The State of Israel revives issues of sacred space for Judaism. Part two of the chapter explores the notion of liturgical space as a response to idolatrous and messianic claims by some Zionists for the present State of Israel. Liturgy preserves the messianic character of Israel as a future and not a present reality.
Jonathan Judaken
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195134681
- eISBN:
- 9780199848652
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195134681.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
A review of the book, Esau's Tears: Modern Antisemitism and the Rise of the Jews by Albert S. Lindemann is presented. Albert Lindemann's ambitious account of modern antisemitism aspires to be a ...
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A review of the book, Esau's Tears: Modern Antisemitism and the Rise of the Jews by Albert S. Lindemann is presented. Albert Lindemann's ambitious account of modern antisemitism aspires to be a significant revisionist analysis of a phenomenon that runs like a blood-red thread through the tapestry of modern European history. He incisively insists that antisemitism should not be understood in terms of an irreversible development that climaxes in the Nazi destruction of European Jewry, and that contemporary historians must work against the distorting lens of the Shoah in evaluating its history. Instead, he aspires toward a nuanced contextualization of antisemitism within a broad history of the role of Jews and Judaism in modern Europe and America, purporting “to offer a more penetrating and sophisticated analysis of the emergence of antisemitism in modern times”.Less
A review of the book, Esau's Tears: Modern Antisemitism and the Rise of the Jews by Albert S. Lindemann is presented. Albert Lindemann's ambitious account of modern antisemitism aspires to be a significant revisionist analysis of a phenomenon that runs like a blood-red thread through the tapestry of modern European history. He incisively insists that antisemitism should not be understood in terms of an irreversible development that climaxes in the Nazi destruction of European Jewry, and that contemporary historians must work against the distorting lens of the Shoah in evaluating its history. Instead, he aspires toward a nuanced contextualization of antisemitism within a broad history of the role of Jews and Judaism in modern Europe and America, purporting “to offer a more penetrating and sophisticated analysis of the emergence of antisemitism in modern times”.
Claudia Brodsky
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823230006
- eISBN:
- 9780823235285
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823230006.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
This chapter examines, justifies, and elaborates on the cinematic document entitled Shoah, by Claude Lanzmann as it records several accounts of events participated in and witnessed with long shots of ...
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This chapter examines, justifies, and elaborates on the cinematic document entitled Shoah, by Claude Lanzmann as it records several accounts of events participated in and witnessed with long shots of natural landscapes and sites of human engineering. It explains that in the movie, the referent is lost. In composing the conditions for the indication of a referent that no longer exists, Lanzmann records the enormity of inalternable loss.Less
This chapter examines, justifies, and elaborates on the cinematic document entitled Shoah, by Claude Lanzmann as it records several accounts of events participated in and witnessed with long shots of natural landscapes and sites of human engineering. It explains that in the movie, the referent is lost. In composing the conditions for the indication of a referent that no longer exists, Lanzmann records the enormity of inalternable loss.
David Fraser
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199548781
- eISBN:
- 9780191720673
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199548781.003.0026
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter examines some legal responses to the dangerous phenomenon of Internet-based Holocaust Denial. Legal regulations in Canada and Australia provide two frameworks under which Holocaust ...
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This chapter examines some legal responses to the dangerous phenomenon of Internet-based Holocaust Denial. Legal regulations in Canada and Australia provide two frameworks under which Holocaust Denial can be outlawed. Canada has chosen to proceed by way of complex analyses of the content of the ‘speech’ and its reception by an intended audience. Australia, conversely, has adopted a legal framework which examines the possible adverse impact of the ‘speech’ on an identified victim group. What unites the two, and the aspect which is perhaps most troubling from a variety of perspectives, is a distinct rejection of any claim that the Holocaust actually happened, as an underlying normative basis for legal regulation. The chapter concludes that a political decision that denial of the Shoah is a malum in se approach would be preferable.Less
This chapter examines some legal responses to the dangerous phenomenon of Internet-based Holocaust Denial. Legal regulations in Canada and Australia provide two frameworks under which Holocaust Denial can be outlawed. Canada has chosen to proceed by way of complex analyses of the content of the ‘speech’ and its reception by an intended audience. Australia, conversely, has adopted a legal framework which examines the possible adverse impact of the ‘speech’ on an identified victim group. What unites the two, and the aspect which is perhaps most troubling from a variety of perspectives, is a distinct rejection of any claim that the Holocaust actually happened, as an underlying normative basis for legal regulation. The chapter concludes that a political decision that denial of the Shoah is a malum in se approach would be preferable.
Anne Dufourmantelle
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823279586
- eISBN:
- 9780823281459
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823279586.003.0027
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Every being is implicated in the devastation that took place in the twentieth century: Nazism, the bomb, genocides, mass deportations. When trauma occurs, it defeats the very possibility of being a ...
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Every being is implicated in the devastation that took place in the twentieth century: Nazism, the bomb, genocides, mass deportations. When trauma occurs, it defeats the very possibility of being a subject within it—except in rare exceptions when lucid witnesses can confront it for what it is without being crushed. Something devastating falls upon us. And yet that is when it is most crucial to summon gentleness. W. H. R. Rivers demonstrated this in his regeneration of WW I soldiers.Less
Every being is implicated in the devastation that took place in the twentieth century: Nazism, the bomb, genocides, mass deportations. When trauma occurs, it defeats the very possibility of being a subject within it—except in rare exceptions when lucid witnesses can confront it for what it is without being crushed. Something devastating falls upon us. And yet that is when it is most crucial to summon gentleness. W. H. R. Rivers demonstrated this in his regeneration of WW I soldiers.
Kasper Cardinal Walter
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823228058
- eISBN:
- 9780823237111
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823228058.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
More than forty years have passed since the promulgation of Nostra Aetate and thirty years since the creation of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. These events mark one ...
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More than forty years have passed since the promulgation of Nostra Aetate and thirty years since the creation of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. These events mark one of the most surprising developments of the twentieth century, which changed to a great extent the two-thousand-year history of relations between Christians and Jews, with momentous consequences for the whole world. Both Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II strove to demonstrate that conversion, a new beginning, and reconciliation were possible. Among the new endeavors to be undertaken by the Pontifical Commission, two are worth mentioning: the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the State of Israel, and the dialogue and reflection on the Shoah. This chapter also looks at the future tasks and challenges of the Pontifical Commission.Less
More than forty years have passed since the promulgation of Nostra Aetate and thirty years since the creation of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. These events mark one of the most surprising developments of the twentieth century, which changed to a great extent the two-thousand-year history of relations between Christians and Jews, with momentous consequences for the whole world. Both Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II strove to demonstrate that conversion, a new beginning, and reconciliation were possible. Among the new endeavors to be undertaken by the Pontifical Commission, two are worth mentioning: the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and the State of Israel, and the dialogue and reflection on the Shoah. This chapter also looks at the future tasks and challenges of the Pontifical Commission.
Elizabeth Scheiber
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823233588
- eISBN:
- 9780823241811
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823233588.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
At first glance, Primo Levi's Lilìt appears to be a loosely connected collection of stories divided into three unequal parts. The first section contains autobiographical material from Auschwitz and ...
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At first glance, Primo Levi's Lilìt appears to be a loosely connected collection of stories divided into three unequal parts. The first section contains autobiographical material from Auschwitz and descriptions of other Shoah victims that Levi discovered in literature. The next two sections are a hodgepodge of fictional stories that range from fantasy tales and science fiction to musings on literature and stories about apparently everyday people. Lilìt is a more unified collection than it appears to be, and, as is argued in this chapter, this work deserves to be examined as a cohesive work. The three section titles frame their content, orienting an encounter of some kind toward a crisis or catastrophe. Taken as a whole, the collection makes an interconnected statement on the nature of writing and communication.Less
At first glance, Primo Levi's Lilìt appears to be a loosely connected collection of stories divided into three unequal parts. The first section contains autobiographical material from Auschwitz and descriptions of other Shoah victims that Levi discovered in literature. The next two sections are a hodgepodge of fictional stories that range from fantasy tales and science fiction to musings on literature and stories about apparently everyday people. Lilìt is a more unified collection than it appears to be, and, as is argued in this chapter, this work deserves to be examined as a cohesive work. The three section titles frame their content, orienting an encounter of some kind toward a crisis or catastrophe. Taken as a whole, the collection makes an interconnected statement on the nature of writing and communication.
Norbert J. Hofmann and Joseph Sievers
Philip A Cunningham (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823228058
- eISBN:
- 9780823237111
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823228058.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This book makes available in fifteen chapters English essays that mark the fortieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian ...
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This book makes available in fifteen chapters English essays that mark the fortieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate). Surveying Vatican dialogues and documents, the chapters explore theological questions posed by the Shoah and the Catholic recognition of the Jewish people's covenantal life with God. Featuring essays by Vatican officials, leading rabbis, diplomats, and Catholic and Jewish scholars, the book discusses the nature of Christian–Jewish relations and the need to remember their conflicted and often tragic history, aspects of a Christian theology of Judaism, the Catholic–Jewish dialogue since the Shoah, and the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Israel. The book includes an essay by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, and documents on the rapprochement between the Church and the Jewish people.Less
This book makes available in fifteen chapters English essays that mark the fortieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate). Surveying Vatican dialogues and documents, the chapters explore theological questions posed by the Shoah and the Catholic recognition of the Jewish people's covenantal life with God. Featuring essays by Vatican officials, leading rabbis, diplomats, and Catholic and Jewish scholars, the book discusses the nature of Christian–Jewish relations and the need to remember their conflicted and often tragic history, aspects of a Christian theology of Judaism, the Catholic–Jewish dialogue since the Shoah, and the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Israel. The book includes an essay by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, and documents on the rapprochement between the Church and the Jewish people.
Joseph Palmisano
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199925025
- eISBN:
- 9780199980451
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199925025.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
Empathy is a way of re-membering oneself with the religious other that buttresses an interreligious unity-in-diversity. This book therefore proposes a way of strengthening the bonds of friendship and ...
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Empathy is a way of re-membering oneself with the religious other that buttresses an interreligious unity-in-diversity. This book therefore proposes a way of strengthening the bonds of friendship and dialogue between Judaism and Catholicism is through a more detailed consideration of the phenomenological category of empathy vis-à-vis Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) and Edith Stein (1891–1942). The book's methodology is phenomenological and narrative in approach, and is therefore necessarily contextual in so far as it takes seriously the post-Shoah situation. Heschel's call for a prophetic return to God, a call that is “ecumenically” expansive and supportive of humanity's need to receive otherness, is a call to live life in the form of response to God's pathos. This call finds a prophetic response through Edith Stein's interreligiously attuned scholarship and witness of empathy, as narratively “drawn” from within the chiarascuro horizon of the Shoah. Stein's portrait rises in the typology of “mandorla” figure—as one capable of dialectically bridging sameness with otherness—conveying an em-pathos in word and deed that is less narrow and more interreligious in kind, precisely because her “way” of martyrdom is as a re-memberer with the religious other(s) who is same: she neither distances herself nor denies her consanguinity with the Jewish people. Stein's Jewish and Christian fidelity, while being an archetype for interreligious relations, also challenges Catholicism to do the teshuva work of remembering its Jewish heritage through new categories of witnessing and belonging with otherness.Less
Empathy is a way of re-membering oneself with the religious other that buttresses an interreligious unity-in-diversity. This book therefore proposes a way of strengthening the bonds of friendship and dialogue between Judaism and Catholicism is through a more detailed consideration of the phenomenological category of empathy vis-à-vis Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) and Edith Stein (1891–1942). The book's methodology is phenomenological and narrative in approach, and is therefore necessarily contextual in so far as it takes seriously the post-Shoah situation. Heschel's call for a prophetic return to God, a call that is “ecumenically” expansive and supportive of humanity's need to receive otherness, is a call to live life in the form of response to God's pathos. This call finds a prophetic response through Edith Stein's interreligiously attuned scholarship and witness of empathy, as narratively “drawn” from within the chiarascuro horizon of the Shoah. Stein's portrait rises in the typology of “mandorla” figure—as one capable of dialectically bridging sameness with otherness—conveying an em-pathos in word and deed that is less narrow and more interreligious in kind, precisely because her “way” of martyrdom is as a re-memberer with the religious other(s) who is same: she neither distances herself nor denies her consanguinity with the Jewish people. Stein's Jewish and Christian fidelity, while being an archetype for interreligious relations, also challenges Catholicism to do the teshuva work of remembering its Jewish heritage through new categories of witnessing and belonging with otherness.
Diane L. Wolf
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520228641
- eISBN:
- 9780520926899
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520228641.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter presents a case study of a survivor for whom the Shoah is indeed central. The subject is Jake, a Polish Hasid, for whom a bitter taste of galut, rather than an empowering diaspora, is ...
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This chapter presents a case study of a survivor for whom the Shoah is indeed central. The subject is Jake, a Polish Hasid, for whom a bitter taste of galut, rather than an empowering diaspora, is pivotal to his sense of himself as a Jew. It argues that collective memory—the product of the transmission of a group's history and culture from one generation to the next—is crucial to individuals' identities as members of the group and products of its culture and history. Since the Shoah figures centrally in recent Jewish history, it has become a crucial component in the transmitted collective memory. The chapter draws on Jake's postwar life to accomplish two goals. First, to illustrate the difficulties that characterize the lives of many survivors. For Jake the end of the war marked the beginning of injustices created by family members. Second, to demonstrate that the methods used in Spielberg's Shoah Visual History Foundation can undermine the richness of survivors' stories, while perhaps encouraging a Jewish identity based on victimization. A more nuanced oral history, one that examines the reactions of Jewish kin and the Jewish community, might yield a richer set of images.Less
This chapter presents a case study of a survivor for whom the Shoah is indeed central. The subject is Jake, a Polish Hasid, for whom a bitter taste of galut, rather than an empowering diaspora, is pivotal to his sense of himself as a Jew. It argues that collective memory—the product of the transmission of a group's history and culture from one generation to the next—is crucial to individuals' identities as members of the group and products of its culture and history. Since the Shoah figures centrally in recent Jewish history, it has become a crucial component in the transmitted collective memory. The chapter draws on Jake's postwar life to accomplish two goals. First, to illustrate the difficulties that characterize the lives of many survivors. For Jake the end of the war marked the beginning of injustices created by family members. Second, to demonstrate that the methods used in Spielberg's Shoah Visual History Foundation can undermine the richness of survivors' stories, while perhaps encouraging a Jewish identity based on victimization. A more nuanced oral history, one that examines the reactions of Jewish kin and the Jewish community, might yield a richer set of images.
Pier Francesco Fumagalli
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823228058
- eISBN:
- 9780823237111
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823228058.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
When Pope Paul VI established the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews (CRRJ) on October 22, 1974, a so-called International Catholic–Jewish Liaison Committee (ILC) had already ...
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When Pope Paul VI established the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews (CRRJ) on October 22, 1974, a so-called International Catholic–Jewish Liaison Committee (ILC) had already been in place for four years, having been instituted in Rome on December 23, 1970. The work of the ILC up to the present day can be summarized by distinguishing three different stages: the years 1971–3, 1974–93, and 1994–2006. During the second stage, thirteen sessions were held, focusing on the theme of education, as well as human rights, mission and witness, antisemitism, and the Shoah. The third stage, whose beginning coincides with the establishment of regular diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the State of Israel on December 30 and 31, 1993, includes meetings fifteen through nineteen. Today, among the challenges that the ILC finds itself obliged to face, we also find the one expressed by the Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalifa al-Thani, prime minister of Qatar, who wishes for conversation between Muslims, Christians, and Jews.Less
When Pope Paul VI established the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews (CRRJ) on October 22, 1974, a so-called International Catholic–Jewish Liaison Committee (ILC) had already been in place for four years, having been instituted in Rome on December 23, 1970. The work of the ILC up to the present day can be summarized by distinguishing three different stages: the years 1971–3, 1974–93, and 1994–2006. During the second stage, thirteen sessions were held, focusing on the theme of education, as well as human rights, mission and witness, antisemitism, and the Shoah. The third stage, whose beginning coincides with the establishment of regular diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the State of Israel on December 30 and 31, 1993, includes meetings fifteen through nineteen. Today, among the challenges that the ILC finds itself obliged to face, we also find the one expressed by the Sheikh Abdullah Bin Khalifa al-Thani, prime minister of Qatar, who wishes for conversation between Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
Michael J. Bazyler, Kathryn Lee Boyd, Kristen L. Nelson, and Rajika L. Shah
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190923068
- eISBN:
- 9780190923099
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190923068.003.0008
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Legal History
Brazil declared war on Germany and was a member of the Allied powers during World War II. No immovable property—private, communal, or heirless—was confiscated from Jews or other targeted groups in ...
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Brazil declared war on Germany and was a member of the Allied powers during World War II. No immovable property—private, communal, or heirless—was confiscated from Jews or other targeted groups in Brazil during the war. As a result, no immovable property restitution laws were required. Brazil endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.Less
Brazil declared war on Germany and was a member of the Allied powers during World War II. No immovable property—private, communal, or heirless—was confiscated from Jews or other targeted groups in Brazil during the war. As a result, no immovable property restitution laws were required. Brazil endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.
Michael J. Bazyler, Kathryn Lee Boyd, Kristen L. Nelson, and Rajika L. Shah
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190923068
- eISBN:
- 9780190923099
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190923068.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Legal History
Canada declared war on Germany and was a member of the Allied powers during World War II. No immovable property—private, communal, or heirless—was confiscated from Jews or other targeted groups in ...
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Canada declared war on Germany and was a member of the Allied powers during World War II. No immovable property—private, communal, or heirless—was confiscated from Jews or other targeted groups in Canada during the war. As a result, no immovable property restitution laws were required. Canada endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.Less
Canada declared war on Germany and was a member of the Allied powers during World War II. No immovable property—private, communal, or heirless—was confiscated from Jews or other targeted groups in Canada during the war. As a result, no immovable property restitution laws were required. Canada endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.
Michael J. Bazyler, Kathryn Lee Boyd, Kristen L. Nelson, and Rajika L. Shah
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190923068
- eISBN:
- 9780190923099
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190923068.003.0012
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Legal History
Cyprus was a British Crown colony during World War II. Cyprus was a haven to refugees escaping Nazi persecution during World War II, and after concentration camps in Europe were liberated, detention ...
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Cyprus was a British Crown colony during World War II. Cyprus was a haven to refugees escaping Nazi persecution during World War II, and after concentration camps in Europe were liberated, detention centers were set up on the island by the British in an effort to curtail survivors from entering British Mandate Palestine. No immovable property—private, communal, or heirless—was confiscated from Jews or other targeted groups in Cyprus during the war. As a result, no immovable property restitution laws were required. Cyprus endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.Less
Cyprus was a British Crown colony during World War II. Cyprus was a haven to refugees escaping Nazi persecution during World War II, and after concentration camps in Europe were liberated, detention centers were set up on the island by the British in an effort to curtail survivors from entering British Mandate Palestine. No immovable property—private, communal, or heirless—was confiscated from Jews or other targeted groups in Cyprus during the war. As a result, no immovable property restitution laws were required. Cyprus endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.
Michael J. Bazyler, Kathryn Lee Boyd, Kristen L. Nelson, and Rajika L. Shah
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190923068
- eISBN:
- 9780190923099
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190923068.003.0016
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Legal History
Between 1939 and 1944, Finland fought two separate wars against the Soviet Union. In 1941, Finland entered World War II aligned with Nazi Germany in its fight against the Soviet Union. Finland was ...
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Between 1939 and 1944, Finland fought two separate wars against the Soviet Union. In 1941, Finland entered World War II aligned with Nazi Germany in its fight against the Soviet Union. Finland was never conquered or occupied by Germany, nor were any anti-Jewish laws passed in the country. No immovable property—private, communal, or heirless—was taken from Jews or other targeted groups in Finland during the war. As a result, no immovable property restitution laws were required. Finland endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.Less
Between 1939 and 1944, Finland fought two separate wars against the Soviet Union. In 1941, Finland entered World War II aligned with Nazi Germany in its fight against the Soviet Union. Finland was never conquered or occupied by Germany, nor were any anti-Jewish laws passed in the country. No immovable property—private, communal, or heirless—was taken from Jews or other targeted groups in Finland during the war. As a result, no immovable property restitution laws were required. Finland endorsed the Terezin Declaration in 2009 and the Guidelines and Best Practices in 2010.
Massimo Giuliani
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823228058
- eISBN:
- 9780823237111
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823228058.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
It is not an exaggeration to claim that the Shoah, or Holocaust, inasmuch as it represents the climax of a long history of anti-Judaism and antisemitism of Christian Europe, constitutes the most ...
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It is not an exaggeration to claim that the Shoah, or Holocaust, inasmuch as it represents the climax of a long history of anti-Judaism and antisemitism of Christian Europe, constitutes the most painful issue and the most unsettling problem among those Jews and those Christians who are involved in a serious and sincere interreligious dialogue. Christians can and must listen to the critique of Christianity that some important thinkers of contemporary Judaism have developed in light of the tragedy of the Shoah. The Shoah was the climax of a long history of anti-Judaism and it is perhaps necessary to stop and reflect upon the religious significance of that attempt of total extermination of the Jewish people. Religious authorities, and especially the pastoral and theological leadership of the churches, must ensure that a new awareness is developed of the deep link between Jews and Christians in the wake of that terrible attempt to cut forever, at the root, the plant of Israel.Less
It is not an exaggeration to claim that the Shoah, or Holocaust, inasmuch as it represents the climax of a long history of anti-Judaism and antisemitism of Christian Europe, constitutes the most painful issue and the most unsettling problem among those Jews and those Christians who are involved in a serious and sincere interreligious dialogue. Christians can and must listen to the critique of Christianity that some important thinkers of contemporary Judaism have developed in light of the tragedy of the Shoah. The Shoah was the climax of a long history of anti-Judaism and it is perhaps necessary to stop and reflect upon the religious significance of that attempt of total extermination of the Jewish people. Religious authorities, and especially the pastoral and theological leadership of the churches, must ensure that a new awareness is developed of the deep link between Jews and Christians in the wake of that terrible attempt to cut forever, at the root, the plant of Israel.
Sarah Wobick-Segev
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781503605145
- eISBN:
- 9781503606548
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9781503605145.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
Chapter 5 demonstrates that the patterns developed before World War II were vital to the reconstruction of Jewish communities after the Shoah, especially in Paris and Berlin. By this time, the Jewish ...
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Chapter 5 demonstrates that the patterns developed before World War II were vital to the reconstruction of Jewish communities after the Shoah, especially in Paris and Berlin. By this time, the Jewish public had come to expect a wider social and cultural program that would cater to different guises of Jewish belonging beyond strict religious definitions. Individuals wanted Jewish sociability based not only on the synagogue but also on youth groups and children’s summer camps and on social groups that met at local cafés or restaurants. At the same time, this chapter assesses the vast and critical changes wrought by the Holocaust and explores its repercussions in the postwar communities. Beyond pointing to these important historical continuities, however, this final chapter explores why these patterns were not replicated in Leningrad, despite periodic attempts to recreate public Jewish sociability in the former capital along similar models.Less
Chapter 5 demonstrates that the patterns developed before World War II were vital to the reconstruction of Jewish communities after the Shoah, especially in Paris and Berlin. By this time, the Jewish public had come to expect a wider social and cultural program that would cater to different guises of Jewish belonging beyond strict religious definitions. Individuals wanted Jewish sociability based not only on the synagogue but also on youth groups and children’s summer camps and on social groups that met at local cafés or restaurants. At the same time, this chapter assesses the vast and critical changes wrought by the Holocaust and explores its repercussions in the postwar communities. Beyond pointing to these important historical continuities, however, this final chapter explores why these patterns were not replicated in Leningrad, despite periodic attempts to recreate public Jewish sociability in the former capital along similar models.
Richard Carter-White
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226274423
- eISBN:
- 9780226274560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226274560.003.0016
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
Holocaust testimony is increasingly recognized as a complex and paradoxical mode of representation. This chapter explores how Claude Lanzmann’s seminal documentary Shoah articulates this notion of ...
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Holocaust testimony is increasingly recognized as a complex and paradoxical mode of representation. This chapter explores how Claude Lanzmann’s seminal documentary Shoah articulates this notion of witnessing as a passage, a disjuncture that nonetheless brings distant worlds into contact. Shoah is renowned for the emphasis placed by Lanzmann on the sites of the Holocaust, but this chapter points to a different geographical dynamic at work in the film: the experiences of distance that emerge from filmmaking strategies designed to gain proximity to the events recounted by witnesses. Three such strategies are analyzed: firstly, the multiplication of proximity involved in bringing witnesses who were there back to the place where the event happened; secondly, the repetition of translation and clarification in witness interviews; and thirdly, the structural and ethical challenges raised in the embodied act of viewing this nine-hour film. Through these analyses, it is argued that Shoah expresses the incalculable spatiality of witnessing, and thus the necessity of remaining open to the representational logic and demands of specific acts of witnessing.Less
Holocaust testimony is increasingly recognized as a complex and paradoxical mode of representation. This chapter explores how Claude Lanzmann’s seminal documentary Shoah articulates this notion of witnessing as a passage, a disjuncture that nonetheless brings distant worlds into contact. Shoah is renowned for the emphasis placed by Lanzmann on the sites of the Holocaust, but this chapter points to a different geographical dynamic at work in the film: the experiences of distance that emerge from filmmaking strategies designed to gain proximity to the events recounted by witnesses. Three such strategies are analyzed: firstly, the multiplication of proximity involved in bringing witnesses who were there back to the place where the event happened; secondly, the repetition of translation and clarification in witness interviews; and thirdly, the structural and ethical challenges raised in the embodied act of viewing this nine-hour film. Through these analyses, it is argued that Shoah expresses the incalculable spatiality of witnessing, and thus the necessity of remaining open to the representational logic and demands of specific acts of witnessing.
Peter Trawny
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034012
- eISBN:
- 9780262334631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034012.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter argues that in the Black Notebooks Heidegger assigns Jews or Jewishness a specific and essential ontohistorical role in the history of being and world history. It is argued that ...
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This chapter argues that in the Black Notebooks Heidegger assigns Jews or Jewishness a specific and essential ontohistorical role in the history of being and world history. It is argued that Heidegger, in a fashion reminiscent of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, attributes to Jews a world conspiracy, in the course of which Germany is dragged into a planetary war, where Germany sacrifices her soldiers in a war against other nations, while World Jewry, as the enemy of Germany, remains elusive and keeps out of actual warfare. Moreover, it is shown that within the ideologically recast ontological difference, Heidegger assigns Jews the role of uprooting beings from being, ultimately issuing in the self-annihilation of Jewry. It is further argued that despite his ontohistorical interest in Jews Heidegger passes over in silence the real persecution and annihilation of the Jews in the Shoah, demonstrating Heidegger’s refusal to accept the unconditional moral meaning of the Shoah.Less
This chapter argues that in the Black Notebooks Heidegger assigns Jews or Jewishness a specific and essential ontohistorical role in the history of being and world history. It is argued that Heidegger, in a fashion reminiscent of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, attributes to Jews a world conspiracy, in the course of which Germany is dragged into a planetary war, where Germany sacrifices her soldiers in a war against other nations, while World Jewry, as the enemy of Germany, remains elusive and keeps out of actual warfare. Moreover, it is shown that within the ideologically recast ontological difference, Heidegger assigns Jews the role of uprooting beings from being, ultimately issuing in the self-annihilation of Jewry. It is further argued that despite his ontohistorical interest in Jews Heidegger passes over in silence the real persecution and annihilation of the Jews in the Shoah, demonstrating Heidegger’s refusal to accept the unconditional moral meaning of the Shoah.
Aaron T. Looney
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823262960
- eISBN:
- 9780823266654
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823262960.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
The first critical study of Vladimir Jankélévitch in English, this book traces Jankélévitch's reflections on the conditions of forgiveness and the temporality of forgiveness in relation to creation, ...
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The first critical study of Vladimir Jankélévitch in English, this book traces Jankélévitch's reflections on the conditions of forgiveness and the temporality of forgiveness in relation to creation, history, and memory. It demonstrates the influence of Jewish and Christian thought on Jankélévitch's understanding of forgiveness and the interconnection of metaphysics, mysticism, aesthetics, and ethics in his philosophy. This work contextualizes Jankélévitch's thought within the history of philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Butler, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Scheler, and Bergson, and it engages him in contemporary debates with Arendt, Derrida, Levinas, and Ricoeur. The Shoah was the pivotal historical event in Jankélévitch’s life. This book poses his question “is forgiveness possible as a response to evil?” and shows why it remains a potent philosophical question today. It argues for the unity of Jankélévitch's two works on forgiveness—his initial polemical essay against forgiveness and his later ode to forgiveness, and it highlights the tensions in Jankélévitch’s philosophy between resentment and forgiveness, love and justice, and a forgiveness conditioned by repentance and an unconditional forgiveness. In what Jankélévitch calls the organ-obstacle, evil is paradoxically both the organ or impetus for forgiveness and the obstacle to forgiveness.Less
The first critical study of Vladimir Jankélévitch in English, this book traces Jankélévitch's reflections on the conditions of forgiveness and the temporality of forgiveness in relation to creation, history, and memory. It demonstrates the influence of Jewish and Christian thought on Jankélévitch's understanding of forgiveness and the interconnection of metaphysics, mysticism, aesthetics, and ethics in his philosophy. This work contextualizes Jankélévitch's thought within the history of philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Butler, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Scheler, and Bergson, and it engages him in contemporary debates with Arendt, Derrida, Levinas, and Ricoeur. The Shoah was the pivotal historical event in Jankélévitch’s life. This book poses his question “is forgiveness possible as a response to evil?” and shows why it remains a potent philosophical question today. It argues for the unity of Jankélévitch's two works on forgiveness—his initial polemical essay against forgiveness and his later ode to forgiveness, and it highlights the tensions in Jankélévitch’s philosophy between resentment and forgiveness, love and justice, and a forgiveness conditioned by repentance and an unconditional forgiveness. In what Jankélévitch calls the organ-obstacle, evil is paradoxically both the organ or impetus for forgiveness and the obstacle to forgiveness.
