American Religious Responses to Kristallnacht

ISBN-13: 9780230618060 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 215 str.

Maria Mazzenga

Opis

Based on work conducted by scholars as part of a Summer Research Workshop organized by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. in 2007, this book takes a fresh look at how American Protestants, Catholics, and Jews responded to the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany and German-occupied territory in the 1930s. The essays focus specifically on American religious responses to the November 9-10, 1938 anti-Jewish pogrom known as Kristallnacht. Today understood as the first act of the Holocaust because of its systematized brutality against Germany's Jews, Kristallnacht, generated a dramatic response among mainline Protestants, Catholic clerical and lay leaders, Orthodox Jews, Protestant fundamentalists, and Jewish War Veterans. Together, the essays represent the first examination of multi-religious group responses to the beginnings of one of the pivotal moral events of the twentieth century, the Holocaust. They possess implications for the history of anti-Semitism globally and in the U.S., the history of interfaith cooperation and religious belief in America, the influence of American ideals on religious thought, and the impact of historical events on Jewish and Christian theology.

Recenzje

"This volume is one of the first in decades to explore the impact of religion on American responses to the Holocaust. The book's greatest strength lies in new evidence from U.S. religious periodicals and archives typically not consulted by Holocaust scholars; for example, the archives of the Catholic University of America, the Center for Migration Studies, Union Theological Seminary, and the Presbyterian Historical Archive. American Religious Responses to Kristallnacht demonstrates the promise that heretofore untouched primary source material generated by U.S. religious groups and institutions holds for scholarship on American responses to Nazism. For this, Dr. Mazzenga and the volume's contributors are to be congratulated." - Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Spis treści

Introduction: American Religious Groups and Kristallnacht; M.Mazzenga Christian and Jewish Interfaith Efforts during the Holocaust: The Ecumenical Context; V.J.Barnett 'The Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man': Mainline American Protestants and the Kristallnacht Pogrom; K.Jantzen Kristallnacht in Context: Jewish War Veterans in America and Britain and the Crisis of German Jewry; M.Berkowitz Toward an American Catholic Response to the Holocaust: Catholic Americanism and Kristallnacht; M.Mazzenga American Catholics Respond to Kristallnacht: NCWC Refugee Policy and the Plight of Non-Aryans; P.Hayes Kristallnacht: The American Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theological Response; G.Greenberg Persecution, Prophecy, and the Fundamentalist Reconstruction of Germany, 1933-1940; M.Bowman

O autorze

MARIA  MAZZENGA has served as Education Archivist at the American Catholic History Research Centre, USA and University Archives since 2005. She has written several articles on American Catholicism and on the U.S. home front during the Second World War and is currently working on a book on American Catholic responses to the Holocaust.