Losing trust in the world : Holocaust scholars confront torture / edited and introduced by Leonard Grob and John K. Roth.

Other author Grob, Leonard, editor.
Other author Roth, John K. editor.
Format Book
PublicationSeattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Copyright Date©2017
Descriptionxix, 225 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies
Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies. ^A1130428
Contents Prologue: The questions of torture / Leonard Grob and John K. Roth -- Torture during the Holocaust : responsible witnessing / Leonard Grob -- Torture / Björn Krondorfer -- Speech under torture : bearing witness to the howl / Dorota Glowacka -- Johann Baptist Neuhäusler and torture in Dachau / Suzanne Brown-Fleming -- The emerging Halachic debate about torture / Peter J. Haas -- Torture in light of the Holocaust : an impossible possibility / Didier Pollefeyt -- The justification of suffering : Holocaust theodicy and torture / Sarah K. Pinnock -- Assuaging pain : therapeutic care for torture survivors / Margaret Brearley -- Torture and the totalitarian appropriation of the human being from national socialism to Islamic jihadism / David Patterson -- Crying out : rape as torture and the responsibility to protect / John K. Roth -- Epilogue: Again, the questions of torture / Leonard Grob and John K. Roth.
General noteA Samuel and Althea Stroum book.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2016008401
ISBN9780295998459 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN0295998458 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780295998466 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN0295998466 (pbk. ; alk. paper)