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Borowitz said that this return to fundamentalism has been due to a "collapse in confidence" in modernity stemming from the Holocaust...
...modern view" that flourished before the Holocaust was the idea that humanity no longer needed God to tell it what was moral or ethical, Borowitz said. People, he said, believed that those who were cultured and educated could provide that service...
...after the Holocaust, Borowitz said, "the fundamental understanding and assumptions of modernity had collapsed. Of all the times to have confidence in human nature and education, after the Holocaust...
...Jews, this remembrance is not a new process. The Jewish religion is full of both comemorations of past tragedies and celebrations for having survived them all--slavery in Egypt, destruction of the Temples, expulsions from all the European countries, pogroms in Russia and the Holocaust...
Remembering the Holocaust is different for Eastern European non-Jews than it is for Jews. It means in part admitting guilt--ad-mitting that something as horrible as the Holocaust happened in the Ukraine. And while citizens of the Ukraine may not be oppressors today, their ancestors stood by while Jews were being...