Description
One of the perplexing questions to emerge from the Holocaust is what led some people to reach out and help the victims while others turned their backs or became perpetrators. If these questions could be answered it might help future generations to create a more caring society in which goodness is more common than evil. With this compelling book David Blumenthal has moved us significantly closer to that goal. But he has done more than just that. He challenges readers to confront their own behavior and ask whether they live their lives in a way that facilitates the doing of good. -- Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University Original in its approach as well as its interpretation. -- Elie Wiesel, University Professor and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Boston University
About the Author
David R. Blumenthal is Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religion at Emory University. Among his numerous other books are God at the Center (Harper & Row, 1988/Jason Aronson, 1994) and Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest (Westminster/John Knox, 1993).
Reviews
Learned, eloquent, and engaging. Ethics Blumenthal has written an unusually well reasoned, well researched, and well presented book involving his post-Holocaust moral and religious reflections on preventing future genocides ... Blumenthal's effort to integrate his science-based findings about values with selected prosocial teachings in Judaism and to commend this approach for those of other faiths adds a traditional richness to his work. Choice It is a pleasure and a privilege to offer this review of this excellent book... Blumenthal is to be commended for the brilliance and the erudition with which he has handled a very difficult and provocative subject in this masterful work. Conservative Judaism
Awards
Commended for Outstanding Book Award 6 (United States).
Book Information
ISBN 9780878407156
Author David R. Blumenthal
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Georgetown University Press
Publisher Georgetown University Press
Weight(grams) 454g