Physical Description
xiv, 360 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction : the German problem of Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Part I The Jewish device of repentance : from individual, divine-human to interhuman, collective "turning"
1.Turning in the God-human relationship (R1-R9)
2. Interhuman and collective repentance (R10-R14)
Part II Mutual-turning in German Vergangenheitsbewältigung : responses and correspondence
3. "People, not devils" (P1)
4. "Fascism was the great apostasy" (P2)
"The French must love the German spirit now entrusted to them" (P3)
"One cannot speak of injustice without raising the question of guilt" (P4)
"You won't believe how thankful I am for what you have said" (P5)
"Courage to say no and still more courage to say yes" (P6)
"Raise our voice, both Jews and Germans" (P7)
"The appropriateness of each proposition depends upon who utters it" (P8)
"Hitler is in ourselves, too" (P9)
"I am Germany"(P10)
"Know before whom you will have to give an account"(P11)
"We take over the guilt of the fathers" (P12)
"Remember the evil, but do not forget the good" (P13)
"We are not authorized to forgive" (P14)
Conclusion.
ISBN
9781501707612
1501707612
9781501707629
1501707620
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the German problem of Vergangenheitsbewältigung -- Part I The Jewish device of repentance : from individual, divine-human to interhuman, collective "turning" -- 1.Turning in the God-human relationship (R1-R9) -- 2. Interhuman and collective repentance (R10-R14) -- Part II Mutual-turning in German Vergangenheitsbewältigung : responses and correspondence -- 3. "People, not devils" (P1) -- 4. "Fascism was the great apostasy" (P2) -- "The French must love the German spirit now entrusted to them" (P3) -- "One cannot speak of injustice without raising the question of guilt" (P4) -- "You won't believe how thankful I am for what you have said" (P5) -- "Courage to say no and still more courage to say yes" (P6) -- "Raise our voice, both Jews and Germans" (P7) -- "The appropriateness of each proposition depends upon who utters it" (P8) -- "Hitler is in ourselves, too" (P9) -- "I am Germany"(P10) -- "Know before whom you will have to give an account"(P11) -- "We take over the guilt of the fathers" (P12) -- "Remember the evil, but do not forget the good" (P13) -- "We are not authorized to forgive" (P14) -- Conclusion.