Word: holocaust
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...bestseller lists throughout Europe. The book war certainly not the first autobiography to be written about Nazi death camps, and while the unexpected twists of Pisar's subsequent life made his tale more dramatic than most, that along did not account for the book's rampant popularity. Unlike most Holocaust memoirs. Of Blood and Hope was not just a reminiscence, but a warning. The book, like its author, was a product of the past, projected onto the future...
...spoke of his impoverished father Jacob Cohen, the descendant of respected Lithuanian rabbis At Choate, though, Paul encountered vicious anti-Semitism, from his peers. The experience made him piece together the memories of unexplained moments in his childhood--his father evading a question, or his mother insisting that the Holocaust gave Jews a special responsibility to fight social injustice--into a curiosity about his ancestral religion...
...life itself is threatened. These are the trappings of a Graham Greene moral thriller, but Herbert moves them into the arena of science fiction with some frightening speculations on medical warfare and some chilling ideas about the future imperfect, a hazardous place even without the threat of a nuclear holocaust...
...sickening realization of what had taken place in concentration camps turned world opinion against the rawest form of anti-Semitism. Like the Southern bigots who were forced to don the robes and hoods of KKK to carry out their lynchings and burnings with impunity,. Jew-haters after the Holocaust could not practice their bigotry without assuming some sort of disguise...
...many conservative Catholic intellectuals (see box). "Some of the bishops are extremely cavalier," says Church Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University. "They seem to say there is no real problem with the Soviets. And some of them have fallen into the habit of saying that a nuclear holocaust would be the greatest of all evils. Yet in religious terms, physical destruction, no matter how horrible, can never be the worst evil. It makes me shiver when it is implied that we should allow ourselves if necessary to be conquered." Others argue that the bishops are overstepping their worldly authority...