Ethics After The Holocaust

Ethics after the Holocaust is concerned with trying to answer the following questions: How could such a catastrophe happen? Why did it take place? Where were the ethical traditions and teachings that seemingly should have kept such things from occurring? The book's six contributors, Leonard Grob, Peter J. Haas, David Hirsch, David Patterson, Didier Pollefeyt, and John K. Roth -- experienced Holocaust scholars from the fields of literature, philosophy, religious studies, and theology -- have each written a substantive essay that sets forth fundamental concerns about post-Holocaust ethics. After each essay, they offer critiques of other essays and respond to critiques of their own. The book's distinctive dialogue format deepens inquiry that interprets the Holocaust not only as an assault on millions of innocent human beings -- Jews first and foremost among them -- but also as an attack on goodness itself.