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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1989 4(3):299-310; doi:10.1093/hgs/4.3.299
© 1989 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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‘Christian Confrontations with the Holocaust’

ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY AND NECESSITY OF BEING A CHRISTIAN: POST-HOLOCAUST REFLECTIONS BASED ON THE THOUGHT OF JEAN AMÉRY AND EMIL FACKENHEIM*

JOHN K. ROTH

Claremont McKenna College

Jean Améry's At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities contains a chapter ‘On the necessity and impossibility of being a Jew’. In To Mend the World: Foundations of Future Jewish Thought, Emil Fackenheim asserts that ‘Christianity is ruptured by the Holocaust.’ Based on those perspectives, this essay reflects on the impossibility and necessity of being a Christian in a post-Holocaust world.

*Presented at the ‘Remembering for the Future’ Conference, Oxford, 10–13 July 1988.


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