Learning from History: A Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust
Because the Holocaust, at its core, was an extreme expression of a devastating racism, the author contends it has special significance for African Americans. Locke, a university professor, clergyman, and African American, reflects on the common experiences of African American and Jewish people as minorities and on the great tragedy that each community has experienced in its history—slavery and the Holocaust. Without attempting to equate the experiences of African Americans to the experiences of European Jews during the Holocaust, the author does show how aspects of the Holocaust, its impact on the Jewish community worldwide, and the long-lasting consequences relate to slavery, the civil rights movement, and the current status of African Americans.

Written from a Christian perspective, this book argues that the implications of the Holocaust touch all people, and that it is a major mistake to view the Holocaust as an exclusively Jewish event. Instead, the author asks whether it is possible for both African Americans and Jewish Americans to learn from the experience of the other regarding the common threat that minority people confront in Western societies. Locke focuses on the themes of parochialism and patriotism and reexamines the role of the Christian churches during the Holocaust in an effort to challenge some of the prevailing views in Holocaust studies.

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Learning from History: A Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust
Because the Holocaust, at its core, was an extreme expression of a devastating racism, the author contends it has special significance for African Americans. Locke, a university professor, clergyman, and African American, reflects on the common experiences of African American and Jewish people as minorities and on the great tragedy that each community has experienced in its history—slavery and the Holocaust. Without attempting to equate the experiences of African Americans to the experiences of European Jews during the Holocaust, the author does show how aspects of the Holocaust, its impact on the Jewish community worldwide, and the long-lasting consequences relate to slavery, the civil rights movement, and the current status of African Americans.

Written from a Christian perspective, this book argues that the implications of the Holocaust touch all people, and that it is a major mistake to view the Holocaust as an exclusively Jewish event. Instead, the author asks whether it is possible for both African Americans and Jewish Americans to learn from the experience of the other regarding the common threat that minority people confront in Western societies. Locke focuses on the themes of parochialism and patriotism and reexamines the role of the Christian churches during the Holocaust in an effort to challenge some of the prevailing views in Holocaust studies.

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Learning from History: A Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust

Learning from History: A Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust

by Hubert Locke
Learning from History: A Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust

Learning from History: A Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust

by Hubert Locke

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Because the Holocaust, at its core, was an extreme expression of a devastating racism, the author contends it has special significance for African Americans. Locke, a university professor, clergyman, and African American, reflects on the common experiences of African American and Jewish people as minorities and on the great tragedy that each community has experienced in its history—slavery and the Holocaust. Without attempting to equate the experiences of African Americans to the experiences of European Jews during the Holocaust, the author does show how aspects of the Holocaust, its impact on the Jewish community worldwide, and the long-lasting consequences relate to slavery, the civil rights movement, and the current status of African Americans.

Written from a Christian perspective, this book argues that the implications of the Holocaust touch all people, and that it is a major mistake to view the Holocaust as an exclusively Jewish event. Instead, the author asks whether it is possible for both African Americans and Jewish Americans to learn from the experience of the other regarding the common threat that minority people confront in Western societies. Locke focuses on the themes of parochialism and patriotism and reexamines the role of the Christian churches during the Holocaust in an effort to challenge some of the prevailing views in Holocaust studies.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313315695
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 07/30/2000
Series: Contributions to the Study of Religion: Christianity and the Holocaust-Core Issues , #63
Pages: 152
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile: 1540L (what's this?)

About the Author

HUBERT LOCKE is Dean Emeritus of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, where he also held the John and Marguerite Corbally Professorship in Public Service, as well as appointment on the faculties of Comparative Religion, Jewish Studies, and Sociology. He is coeditor of The German Church Struggle and the Holocaust,Exile in the Fatherland: The Prison Letters of Martin Niemoller, and author of The Black Antisemitism Controversy.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Among and Apart: Black and Jewish Peoples in Western Societies
Similar Histories - Separate Experiences (The Difficulty of Approach)
Black and Jewish Americans as "Minorities" (The Difficulty of Visibility)
The Holocaust: Problem, Perplexity and Perspective
The Problem of Inquiry: Amin, Hitler and the Holocaust
The Holocaust and the Problem of Patriotism
The Holocaust and the Problem of Parochialism: The Debate over Holocaust Studies
The Problem of Empathy: Jewish Suffering and the Suffering of Others
Holocaust and the Bystander
The Holocaust: A Black Christian's Perspective

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