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  • Saving the American Dream

    Meditations for Dark Times

    by John K. Roth ...
    The American Dream at its best is an ethical ideal and a moral compass. If respected and sustained, it can guide the United States through Trump 2.0. Anchored in the US Constitution, Saving the American Dream features meditations for dark times. Meditations are intentional acts of focused attention. They seek insight—clear and deep understanding—about critical issues. What, for example, is most ... Read more

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  • Warnings

    The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy

    by Leonard Grob, John K. Roth ...
    Old friends—one a Jew, the other a Christian—Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience makes us anxious about democracy, because we are also Americans living in perilous times.The 2020s remind us of the 1930s when Nazis destroyed democracy in Germany. Carnage followed. In the 2020s, Donald Trump and his followers endanger democracy ... Read more

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  • Sources of Holocaust Insight

    Learning and Teaching about the Genocide

    by John K. Roth ...
    Sources of Holocaust Insight maps the odyssey of an American Christian philosopher who has studied, written, and taught about the Holocaust for more than fifty years. What findings result from John Roth’s journey; what moods pervade it? How have events and experiences, scholars and students, texts and testimonies—especially the questions they raise—affected Roth’s Holocaust studies and guided his ... Read more

    $26.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Approaches to Auschwitz, Revised Edition

    The Holocaust and Its Legacy

    by Richard L. Rubenstein, John K. Roth ...
    Distinctively coauthored by a Christian scholar and a Jewish scholar, this monumental, interdisciplinary study explores the various ways in which the Holocaust has been studied and assesses its continuing significance. The authors develop an analysis of the Holocaust's historical roots, its shattering impact on human civilization, and its decisive importance in determining the fate of the world. ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Advancing Holocaust Studies

    Edited by Carol Rittner, John K. Roth ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Second World War History
    The growing field of Holocaust studies confronts a world wracked by antisemitism, immigration and refugee crises, human rights abuses, mass atrocity crimes, threats of nuclear war, the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, and environmental degradation. What does it mean to advance Holocaust studies—what are learning and teaching about the Holocaust for—in such dire straits? Vast resources ... Read more

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  • Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue

    After the Flood, before the Rainbow

    by Mary C. Boys, James Carroll, Donald J. Dietrich, Irving Greenberg, David Patterson, John T. Pawlikowski, John K. Roth, Elie Wiesel, Alan L. Berger, Amy-Jill Levine0 ...
    This volume sheds light on the transformed post-Holocaust relationship between Catholics and Jews. Once implacable theological foes, the two traditions have travelled a great distance in coming to view the other with respect and dignity. Responding to the horrors of Auschwitz, the Catholic Church has undergone a “reckoning of the soul,” beginning with its landmark document Nostra Aetate and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Failures of Ethics

    Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities

    by John K. Roth ...
    Defined by deliberation about the difference between right and wrong, encouragement not to be indifferent toward that difference, resistance against what is wrong, and action in support of what is right, ethics is civilization's keystone. The Failures of Ethics concentrates on the multiple shortfalls and shortcomings of thought, decision, and action that tempt and incite us human beings to inflict ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Losing Trust in the World

    Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture

    Edited by Leonard Grob, John K. Roth ...
    Series series Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies
    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 Améry went on to write a series of essays about his experience. No reflections on torture are more compelling.Améry declared that the victims ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

    Edited by Peter Hayes, John K. Roth ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics, ethics and religion. ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

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  • The Holocaust

    A New History

    by Laurence Rees ...
    A visceral history of the Holocaust from the author of Auschwitz.“This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”-Antony Beevor, bestselling author of StalingradLaurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Holocaust. Now, he combines ... Read more

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  • Khatyn

    by Ales Adamovich ...
    Based on previously sealed war archives and rare witness records of the survivors, Khatyn is a heart wrenching story of the people who fought for their lives under the Nazi occupation during World War II. Through the prism of the retrospect perception as narrated by the novel’s main character Flyora – a boy who matures during the war – author Ales Adamovich beholds genocide and horrific crimes ... Read more

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  • Pilgrim to Unholy Places

    Christians and Jews re-visit the Holocaust

    by Raymond Pelly ...
    Series Book 26 - Judaica et Christiana
    Based in New Zealand, the author, an Anglican priest, made a number of pilgrimages 1995–2008 to the extermination (and other camp) sites of the Third Reich, 1933–45. These find expression in Diary entries that describe the sites as they now are and scope the problems they raise for both Jews and Christians.The book thus places the Holocaust at the centre of Jewish-Christian dialogue. In face of ... Read more

    $110.19 USD