cunning of history: the Holocaust and the American future
TitleThe cunning of history: the Holocaust and the American future
Call number940.5318/0405
Object number00618
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherHarper Colophon Books
Year of publication
1975
Physical description113p.
MaterialBook
ISBN0060905972
Description
A reinterpretation of the meaning of Auschwitz. In Rubenstein's view Auschwitz was part of a continuum of slavery stretching back to antiquity and was developed by the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. "The culture that made the death camps possible was not only indigenous to the West but was an outcome, albeit unforseen and unintended, of its fundamental religious traditions.