Approaches to Auschwitz: the Holocaust and its legacy

Early historical roots

The Jew as outsider: the Greco-Roman and early Christian worlds - The triumph of Christianity and the "teaching of contempt"

The irony of emancipation: a French connection

The Nazis in power

Toward total domination

War and the final solution

Victims and survivors

Responses to the Holocaust

Their brothers' keepers? Christians, churches, and Jews

Business as usual? Professions and industries during the Holocaust

What can

and cannot

be said? Literary responses to the Holocaust

The silence of God: Philosophical and religious reflection on the Holocaust

The aftermath and the future

The legacy of the Holocaust.