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Foregone conclusions
Michael Andre BernsteinLog in to track your reading progress.
Overview
Bernstein chooses the Holocaust as the prime example of our tency toward foregone conclusions. He argues eloquently against politicians and theologians who depict the Holocaust as foreordained and its victims as somehow implicated in a fate they should have been able to foresee. But his argument ranges wider. From recent biographies of Kafka to the Israeli-P.L.O. peace accords, from campus cultural diversity debates to the Crown Heights riots, Bernstein warns against our passive acceptance of historical or personal victimization.An essential contribution to Holocaust studies, this book is also a lucid call to transform the way we read and write history and the way we make sense of our lives.
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Six essays on the place of Jewry and Jewish history in modern historiography. Bernstein strongly argues that Jews cannot allow themselves to be passively swept along intime and events; rather they must be actors in their own history. An especially interesting chapter deals with the Holocaust's historical implications.Book Details
Published
September 30, 1994
Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.
Pages
181
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780520087859