A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination features writingsby theologians, literary figures, cultural critics, philosophers, politicaltheorists, and others. It surveys the major themes raised by the Holocaust andexamines the most provocative and influential responses to these topics and tothe Holocaust itself. Organized in a roughly chronological pattern, the volumeopens with early responses from the postwar period. Subsequent sections coverthe emergence of central theological statements in the late 1960s and 1970s, thedevelopment of post-Holocaust thinking in the 1970s and 1980s, and burgeoningreflections on the significance of the death camps. Connections between theHolocaust and important events and episodes in Western culture in the eightiesand nineties are also discussed.A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination offers selections fromTheodor W. Adorno, Jean Amery, Hannah Arendt, Omer Bartov, Eliezer Berkovits,Michael Andre Bernstein, Martin Buber, Arthur A. Cohen, A. Roy Eckardt, Emil L.Fackenheim, Saul Friedlander, Amos Funkenstein, Irving Greenberg, AndreasHuyssen, Hans Jonas, Berel Lang, Primo Levi, Johann Baptist Metz, RichardRubenstein, Kenneth Seeskin, Franklin Sherman, David Tracy, Elie Wiesel, RobertE. Willis, and Michael Wyschogrod. Ideal for courses in the Holocaust, Jewishstudies, and the philosophy of religion, this extensive collection will also beof interest to general readers and scholars.