Lessons and Legacies Vol IX: memory, history, and responsibility: reassessment of the Holocaust, implications for the future.

Examines how the darkness of the Holocaust continues to shadow human existence more than sixty years after World War II . The collection opens with Saul Friedlander's call for interdisciplinary approaches to Holocaust research. The essays that follow draw on the latest methodologies in the fields of history, literature, philosophy, religion, film, and gender studies, among others. Leading scholars of the Holocaust engage in the difficult reality that the legacies of the Holocaust have not proved sufficient in intervening against human-made mass death, let alone preventing or eliminating it.