The Future of the Holocaust

by Berel Lang

Book Overview

In The Future of the Holocaust, Berel Lang continues his inquiry into the causal mechanisms of decision-making and conduct in Nazi Germany and into responses to the genocide by individuals and nations--an inquiry that he began in Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide and pursued in Heidegger's Silence. Raising the question now of what the future of the Holocaust is, he addresses among other topics how history and memory together shape views of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080148569X
• ISBN13: 9780801485695
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Seminal, scholarly contribution to Holocaust Studies.

Berel Lang is Professor of Humanities at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In The Future Of The Holocaust: Between History And Memory, Professor Lang inquires into the causal mechanisms of decision making and conduct in Nazi German with respect to the Holocaust, and of post-war responses to Nazi genocide by individuals and nations, including attempts to document the holocaust, to deny the holocaust, and to study and come to understand how the holocaust could happen in the midst of twentieth century Europe. Professor Lang addresses how the concept of "intention" shaped history and memory themselves, and how future views of this horrific genocide may alter those of today. The Future Of The Holocaust is an important, scholarly, essential, highly recommended contribution to holocaust studies in general, and the preservation of authentic history and the role of historians in documenting and refuting attempts to deceive future generations regarding their past.