Title:
Losing trust in the world : Holocaust scholars confront torture / edited and introduced by Leonard Grob and John K. Roth.
Author:
Grob, Leonard, editor.
Roth, John K., editor.
Publication Information:
Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2017]
©2017
Call Number:
HV8593 .L67 2017
Abstract:
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?
ISBN:
9780295998459
9780295998466
Series:
The Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies
Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies.
Physical Description:
xix, 225 pages ; 23 cm.
General Note:
A Samuel and Althea Stroum book.
Contents:
Prologue: The questions of torture / Torture during the Holocaust : responsible witnessing / Torture / Speech under torture : bearing witness to the howl / Johann Baptist Neuhäusler and torture in Dachau / The emerging Halachic debate about torture / Torture in light of the Holocaust : an impossible possibility / The justification of suffering : Holocaust theodicy and torture / Assuaging pain : therapeutic care for torture survivors / Torture and the totalitarian appropriation of the human being from national socialism to Islamic jihadism / Crying out : rape as torture and the responsibility to protect / Epilogue: Again, the questions of torture
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