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THIRD WORLD VIEWS OF THE HOLOCAUST About the Contributors Tenth Anniversary Issue of BRIDGES Preface:
Third World Views of the Holocaust ARTICLES Holocaust
Studies in China Nazi
Hunting and the Prosecution of Genocide in Africa The
Uses and Abuses of the Holocaust Paradigm in Ethiopia: 1980-1991 Japanization
of the Holocaust Reflections
on the Shoah by an Itinerant Muslim Versions
and Perversions of the Holocaust in Latin America SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS Anthony
J. Blasi, Jean Duhaime, and Paul André Turcotte, eds.
Handbook of Early Christianity: Social Science Approaches Marilyn
E. Coors, The Matrix: Charting an Ethics of Inheritable
Genetic Modification Mordechai
Feingold, ed. Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters Abdul
Ali Hamid, ed., Moral Teachings of Islam: Prophetic Traditions
from al-Adab al-mufrad Noreen
L. Herzfeld, In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the
Human Spirit Ernest
B. Hook, ed., Prematurity in Scientific Discovery: On Resistance
and Neglect Richard
A. Horsley, Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the
New World Disorder Tarif
Khalidi, The Muslim Jesus: Saying and Stories in Islamic
Literature Karen
L. King, What is Gnosticism? Daniel
E. Lee, Navigating Right and Wrong Jonathan
D. Moreno, ed. In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality
in a Time of Crisis Gregory
R. Peterson, Minding God: Theology and the Cognitive Sciences Clifford
Putney, Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant
America, 1880-1920 Thomas
M. Robinson and Laura Westra, eds., Thinking about the Environment:
Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval Past Nathan
W. Schlueter, One Dream or Two? Justice in America and in
the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. Cheryl
Brown Travis, ed. Evolution, Gender, and Rape Jean
Vanier, Finding Peace Grant
Wacker, Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture Alison
Wylie, Thinking from Things: Essays in the Philosophy of
Archaeology BOOKS OF NOTE CUMULATIVE INDEX The overall cover design for the FALL/WINTER 2003 issue of BRIDGES was created by Mr. Ty Bachus. The logo at the bottom center was developed by Mr. Terry Beadle and Professor William Miles.
Xu Xin Holocaust Studies is a unique program in China. Its development is linked closely to Judaic Studies in China. The tendency is for Judaic Studies to lead towards the study of anti-Semitism, and the study of anti-Semitism to lead to Holocaust Studies. As Judaic Studies have deepened in China, so have Holocaust Studies. The history and development of Holocaust Studies in the academy in China since the 1980s is surveyed. Research into a broad plan for Jewish refugee resettlement in Southwest China; Communist attitudes towards Judaica prior to the 1970s; the subsequent impact of Jewish literature in translation; public awareness and Holocaust education; and the uniqueness and meanings of Holocaust Studies to the Chinese people are discussed. One unspoken purpose of Holocaust Studies in China is to establish a reference between the Shoah and the Nanjing Massacre. Nazi
Hunting and the Prosecution of Genocide in Africa Gerald Gahima The
pursuit of post-genocidal justice binds the (principally Tutsi)
survivors of the genocide in Rwanda with those of the Shoah.
Rwandans understand well the disappointment that a people feels
when the entire world abandons them to destruction, standing
by and not intervening. Those targeted by genocide owe themselves
the duty to ensure their people’s future survival. Four
reasons argue for law-based prosecutions as responses to genocide:
(1) legal justice not only punishes crime, but commemorates
the victims; (2) there is an ongoing duty to surviving remnants
to eradicate impunity; (3) rebuilding of post-genocidal society
requires the restoration of rule of law, for which punishing
mass murder is a fundamental step; and (4) pursuing justice
is critical for achieving reconciliation. Deciding on the most
appropriate kind of legal prosecution, however, is not a simple
matter. ________ Edward Kissi The global spread of knowledge of the Holocaust has resulted in its politicization. One example occurred in Ethiopia in the 1970s and 1980s, where war and famine heightened the need for food, arms, and international sympathy. To internationalize their causes, anti-state groups appropriated the historical experience of Jews as a framework for drawing American attention to their plight under an African totalitarian regime. While the politicization of Holocaust memory and imagery in Ethiopia bordered on debasement of the experiences of Shoah survivors, it highlighted two important outcomes of Holocaust scholarship. First, knowledge of the Holocaust has now spread beyond its traditional European and North American frontiers. Second, vulnerable groups worldwide are not only drawing lessons from the Holocaust, but also redefining “Jewishness” broadly and beyond ethnicity. Japanization
of the Holocaust Kinue Tokudome
In
Japan, the history of the Holocaust is perceived and sometimes
even exploited by two very different groups. One group argues
that Japan should emulate the way Germany reflects on the
history of the Holocaust, while the other one tries to distinguish
Japan’s wartime history from that of the Holocaust.
Recently, former American POWs who were enslaved by Japanese
companies during WWII have been seeking justice in court.
These lawsuits have been treated by Japan and the U.S. in
very different ways from Holocaust survivor litigation. Although
discouraged by this disparity, the author believes that Japanization
of the Holocaust will eventually take place, and views the
establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
as a relevant model.
Reflections
on the Shoah by an Itinerant Muslim
________ Shawkat M. Toorawa The subject of Muslim response to the Shoah remains woefully understudied and is one about which one can find very little in print that is not polemical. In this essay I use the biography of my own engagement with Jews, Judaism, and the Shoah as a way of broaching this topic. I describe my early education and upbringing and my first contact with the concepts “Jew/ish,” “Nazi,” and “Holocaust.” I go on to describe my subsequent contact with Muslims who demonize Jews, remain silent about Nazi horrors, and deny the Holocaust—all of whom I take to task. I call on Muslims to dissociate themselves from Holocaust revisionists and deniers and to denounce them in the strongest possible terms; and to remember that no person has the right to limit another person’s humanity. Versions
and Perversions of the Holocaust in Latin America Ilán Stavans What
is the impact of the Holocaust in Latin America? Between 1939
and 1945, the region remained, for the large part, distant
from the military campaigns that unfolded in Europe, North
Africa, and the Far East. But as soon World War II was over,
it became a safe haven for Nazi refugees and concentration
camp survivors. In nations such as Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay,
and Uruguay, these two groups often live tête-à-tête in the
same neighborhoods. The way the decimation of European Jewry
has been digested in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas in
pop culture and by the intelligentsia is explored. It reflects
on ingrained ignorance and anti-Semitism and establishes a
bridge between the tragedy and local catastrophes such as
the so-called Dirty War in the seventies. ____________________________________________ Copyright©
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