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- catalog abstract "In examining the recorded memoirs of fifty Holocaust survivors, David Patterson draws on the teaching of the sacred texts of Jewish tradition and the philosophy of Emil Fackenheim and Emmanuel Levinas. That memory, he argues, serves three purposes for Jews struggling to recover after the Holocaust. First, a recovery of tradition: Not only was the body of Israel targeted for destruction, but also its very soul, as that soul was defined by God, Torah, and sacred history. Second, a recovery from an illness: These Jews suffer from the illness of indifference that plagued heaven and earth throughout the event. Third, these memoirs reveal the open-ended nature of recovery as a process that has no resolution: The survivors emerge from the camps, but the camps stay with the survivors and cast their shadow over the world. Readers are transformed into witnesses who face a never-ending process of remembrance, for the sacred, in spite of indifference.".
- catalog contributor b10879765.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "In examining the recorded memoirs of fifty Holocaust survivors, David Patterson draws on the teaching of the sacred texts of Jewish tradition and the philosophy of Emil Fackenheim and Emmanuel Levinas.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index.".
- catalog description "PART ONE: THE RECOVERY OF TRADITION -- The Loss of the Mother -- The Loss of the Father -- The Memory of God -- PART TWO: THE RECOVERY FROM THE ILLNESS OF INDIFFERENCE -- The Face of the Other -- The Memory of Silence -- Response and Responsibility -- PART THREE: THE OPEN-ENDEDNESS OF RECOVERY -- The Problem of Identity -- The Failure of Liberation -- The Summons to Bear Witness.".
- catalog description "That memory, he argues, serves three purposes for Jews struggling to recover after the Holocaust. First, a recovery of tradition: Not only was the body of Israel targeted for destruction, but also its very soul, as that soul was defined by God, Torah, and sacred history. Second, a recovery from an illness: These Jews suffer from the illness of indifference that plagued heaven and earth throughout the event. Third, these memoirs reveal the open-ended nature of recovery as a process that has no resolution: The survivors emerge from the camps, but the camps stay with the survivors and cast their shadow over the world. Readers are transformed into witnesses who face a never-ending process of remembrance, for the sacred, in spite of indifference.".
- catalog extent "xi, 233 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Sun turned to darkness.".
- catalog identifier "0815605307 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sun turned to darkness.".
- catalog isPartOf "Religion, theology, and the Holocaust".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press,".
- catalog relation "Sun turned to darkness.".
- catalog subject "940.53/18/092 21".
- catalog subject "Autobiographical memory.".
- catalog subject "D804.195 .P37 1998".
- catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "PART ONE: THE RECOVERY OF TRADITION -- The Loss of the Mother -- The Loss of the Father -- The Memory of God -- PART TWO: THE RECOVERY FROM THE ILLNESS OF INDIFFERENCE -- The Face of the Other -- The Memory of Silence -- Response and Responsibility -- PART THREE: THE OPEN-ENDEDNESS OF RECOVERY -- The Problem of Identity -- The Failure of Liberation -- The Summons to Bear Witness.".
- catalog title "Sun turned to darkness : memory and recovery in the Holocaust memoir / David Patterson.".
- catalog type "text".