Losing trust in the world : Holocaust scholars confront torture /

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Imprint:	Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	xix, 225 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies.
Subject:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Torture -- History -- 20th century. Torture -- History -- 21st century. Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography. Historiography. Torture. Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11039836

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Other authors / contributors:	Grob, Leonard, editor. Roth, John K., editor.
ISBN:	9780295998459 0295998458 9780295998466 0295998466
Notes:	A Samuel and Althea Stroum book. Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.
Summary:	The contributors to this volume use their expertise in Holocaust studies to reflect on ethical, religious, and legal aspects of torture then and now. Their inquiry grapples with the euphemistic language often used to disguise torture and with the question of whether torture ever constitutes a "necessary evil." Differences of opinion reverberate, raising deeper questions: Can trust be restored? What steps can we as individuals and as a society take to move closer to a world in which torture is unthinkable?

Table of Contents:

Prologue: The questions of torture / Leonard Grob and John K. Roth
Torture during the Holocaust : responsible witnessing / Leonard Grob
Torture / Björn Krondorfer
Speech under torture : bearing witness to the howl / Dorota Glowacka
Johann Baptist Neuhäusler and torture in Dachau / Suzanne Brown-Fleming
The emerging Halachic debate about torture / Peter J. Haas
Torture in light of the Holocaust : an impossible possibility / Didier Pollefeyt
The justification of suffering : Holocaust theodicy and torture / Sarah K. Pinnock
Assuaging pain : therapeutic care for torture survivors / Margaret Brearley
Torture and the totalitarian appropriation of the human being from national socialism to Islamic jihadism / David Patterson
Crying out : rape as torture and the responsibility to protect / John K. Roth
Epilogue: Again, the questions of torture / Leonard Grob and John K. Roth.

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