Dimensions of the Holocaust

By Elie WieselRobert McAfee BrownDorothy Rabinowitz, et al.

Book Overview

Elie Wiesel, Lucy Dawidowicz, Dorothy Rabinowitz, and Robert McAfee Brown explore society's inability to comprehend the horrors of the Holocaust, and its unwillingness to remember. Annotated by Elliot... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810109085
• ISBN13: 9780810109087
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An Improtant Book

This book is a collection of four lectures delivered at Northwestern Univeristy in 1977. It takes four different approaches to the Holocaust: The Holocaust as literay inspirartion, as history, as living memory, and as a problem in moral choice. Elie Wiesel's lecture, like his novels, is very poetic and gripping--however, he doesn't really say very much, instead, he asks a great many "why" questions--which is perhaps all anyone can do. The lectures of Lucy Dawidowicz and Dorothy Rabinowitz are interesting in that they reveal the depth and breadth of the historical and personal record of the Holocaust as well as the extreme importance to the Jews of recording and remembering. Robert McAfee Brown confronts the difficult issue of potential Christian complicity in the Holocaust and the great question of theodicy--how can we believe in God after the Holocaust? He also provides some good analysis of Elie Wiesel's novels, which he sees as a pilgramage.