From the Unthinkable to the Unavoidable

CAROL RITTNER is a Sister of Mercy from the Dallas, Pennsylvania Regional Community. She was appointed the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Holocaust Studies at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in 1994. She continues to teach there as Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies. In addition to her teaching and her many publications in the field of Holocaust Studies, Rittner has served as the founding director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.JOHN K. ROTH is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, where he has been a faculty member since 1966. He has held visiting professorships in Switzerland, Austria, Japan, Israel, and Norway. He has published more than twenty books and hundreds of articles, many of them focused on the Holocaust. During 1995-96, he was a Fulbright Fellow in Norway.

• Series ForewordIntroduction: Memories, Encounters, and Challenges by Carol Rittner and John K. RothMemoriesVoices for Change: Chapters in the Post-Holocaust Dialogue by Abraham J. PeckA Door that Opened and Never Closed: Teaching the Shoah by Eva FleischnerIn the Name of the Father by Harry James CargasBeing Catholic, Learning Jewish: Personal Reflections on the Shoah by Eugene J. FisherPost-Holocaust Jewish Reflections on German Theology by Susannah HeschelEncountersHow My Mind Has Changed by Alan L. BergerMy Experience with the Holocaust by Franklin H. LittellPenetrating Barriers: A Holocaust Retrospective by John T. PawlikowskiOnce and Not Future Partisan: A Plea for History by A. Roy EckardtFrom Ignorance to Insight by Carol RittnerChallengesThe Shoah-Road to a Revised/Revived Christianity by Alice EckardtFrom Anger to Inquiry by David R. BlumenthalA Twentieth-Century Journey by Richard L. RubensteinTransforming the Void by Michael BerenbaumIt Started with Tears: The Holocaust's Impact on My Life and Work by John K. RothSelected BibliographyIndex