| Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture Contributor(s): Grob, Leonard (Editor), Roth, John K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0295998458 ISBN-13: 9780295998459 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust - History | Historiography - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 364.67 |
| LCCN: 2016008401 |
| Series: Stephen S. Weinstein Post-Holocaust Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.11 lbs) 245 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Holocaust - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Chronological Period - 1940's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz. Liberated in 1945, Jean Am ry went on to write a series of essays about his experience. No reflections on torture are more compelling. Am ry declared that the victims of torture lose trust in the world at the "very first blow." 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? |