From the Unthinkable to the Unavoidable

CAROL RITTNER is a Sister of Mercy from the Dallas, Pennsylvania Regional Community. She was appointed the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Holocaust Studies at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in 1994. She continues to teach there as Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies. In addition to her teaching and her many publications in the field of Holocaust Studies, Rittner has served as the founding director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.

JOHN K. ROTH is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, where he has been a faculty member since 1966. He has held visiting professorships in Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Israel, and Norway. He has published more than twenty books and hundreds of articles, many of them focused on the Holocaust. During 1995-96, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Norway.