{"product_id":"9780253110527","title":"Post-Holocaust: Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"These essays are extremely well written, with the clarity and\u003cbr\u003e accessibility that one has come to expect from Berel Lang, one of the most respected\u003cbr\u003e and significant philosophers writing about the Holocaust and its impact.\" --\u003cbr\u003e Michael L. Morgan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these trenchant essays, philosopher Berel\u003cbr\u003e Lang examines post-Holocaust intepretations -- and misinterpretations -- showing the\u003cbr\u003e ways in which rhetoric and ideology have affected historical discourse about the\u003cbr\u003e Holocaust and how these accounts can be deconstructed. Why didn't the Jews resist?\u003cbr\u003e How could the Germans have done what they did? Why didn't more bystanders join in\u003cbr\u003e the rescue? In Lang's view, these questions become mischievous when the\u003cbr\u003e circumstances in which victims, perpetrators, and bystanders played their roles are\u003cbr\u003e omitted or obscured. To confront such issues adequately requires comparative and\u003cbr\u003e contextual evidence. Post-Holocaust addresses such questions as the place of the\u003cbr\u003e Holocaust in the Nazi project as a whole, the roles of revenge and forgiveness in\u003cbr\u003e post-Holocaust Jewish thinking, Holocaust commemoration as artifice or\u003cbr\u003e \"business,\" and the relationship of the Holocaust to traditional\u003cbr\u003e antisemitism. Lang's analysis provides an incisive and fruitful basis for\u003cbr\u003e confronting these critical subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewish Literature and Culture\u003cbr\u003e -- Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101526081776,"sku":"9780253110527","price":17.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253110527","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}