Word: holocaustic
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Harvard Law professor Martha Minow opens her book Between Vengeance and Forgiveness by listing the reasons why it had to be written and why it should be read: "The Holocaust and Final Solution, the Rape of Nanking, the...killings of Cambodians, the genocide of Armenians...the killings of the Hutus, the Gulag, the tortures of 'leftists' in Chile, the students in Argentina, the victims of apartheid." She makes a grim list of the genocides, violence, mass tortures and collective horror, nothing how our century is characterized by these and other atrocities and how it may be remembered more...
...this deceptively unadorned prose, however, lurks the seed of an almost unimagineably horrible tale, which Appelfeld manages to recount in completely nonjudgmental strokes. Ultimately, it's clear why Appelfeld has been called a "worthy successor to Kafka" with his surreal, yet plausible, plots. Though the legacy of the Holocaust is never explicit, The Conversion often seems a device forcing the reader to question reality, and our ability to believe (or ignore) its ramifications...
...novel opens about two generations before the Holocaust in the Austrian village of Neufeld. There, a young civil servant named Karl has just converted from Judaism to Christianity, thereby following in the footsteps of almost all of the Jews in the city. His reasoning is that he wishes to be promoted to municipal secretary, a position he has been working toward for 17 years but also a position which his faith has prevented him from achieving. Christian sentiment, however, scorns the newly converted as Jewish at the core in spite of any baptism ceremony they may have undergone. Karl, while...
Porter Professor of Philosophy Robert Nozick took perhaps the most extreme view, placing the Holocaust apart from all other events in history...
...Holocaust has shut the door that Christ opened," Nozick said. "Whatever suffering Jesus underwent, this could not be sufficient to redeem humanity in the face of the Holocaust...