Sources of Holocaust Insight: Learning and Teaching about the Genocide - Softcover

Roth, John K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 153267418X ISBN 13: 9781532674181

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2020

Synopsis

Sources of Holocaust Insight maps the odyssey of an American Christian philosopher who has studied, written, and taught about the Holocaust for more than fifty years. What findings result from John Roth’s journey; what moods pervade it? How have events and experiences, scholars and students, texts and testimonies—especially the questions they raise—affected Roth’s Holocaust studies and guided his efforts to heed the biblical proverb: “Whatever else you get, get insight”?
More sources than Roth can acknowledge have informed his encounters with the Holocaust. But particular persons—among them Elie Wiesel, Raul Hilberg, Primo Levi, and Albert Camus—loom especially large. Revisiting Roth’s sources of Holocaust insight, this book does so not only to pay tribute to them but also to show how the ethical, philosophical, and religious reverberations of the Holocaust confer and encourage responsibility for human well-being in the twenty-first century. Seeing differently, seeing better—sound learning and teaching about the Holocaust aim for what may be the most important Holocaust insight of all: Take nothing good for granted.

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About the Author

John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books, including Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy (Cascade, 2023), Stress Test: The Israel-Hamas War and Christian-Jewish Relations (2025), and This Time: Teaching the Holocaust Today (2026).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 153267418X
• ISBN 13: 9781532674181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304