Sentences with phrase «holocaust as»

The review summarises fairly Snyder's original (to me) view of the Holocaust as being a result not so much, or not only, of a ruthlessly efficient state killing machine, but also, and necessarily, of the prior destruction of all state and social institutions in the countries in which the killing took place.

In his concluding chapter, Snyder describes the Holocaust as an act of «ecological panic» -LSB-...] In the 21st century, he speculates, rapid and destructive climate change could lead to wholesale food shortages caused by desertification of huge areas of the planet, or alternatively drastic economic collapse and state bankruptcies.

It used the Holocaust as an example.

When he painted the soles of shoes — the stacked piles of shoes that we find in many of his large - scale works, and the single crumpled pair we find here in a smaller study — we imagine the burden of confronting and memorialising the Holocaust as one who was Jewish, and the anti-Semitism and the racism he felt to his bones growing up in Los Angeles in the 1920s.

Moreover, the game does not look to shy away from addressing the realities of the Holocaust as part of its portrayal of the second World War.

Understanding Holocaust as a unique phenomenon, historians, at the same time, are trying to define the role of the Jewish tragedy in the fate of mankind.

As one who has studied the holocaust as well as cult followings and indoctrinations, I can somewhat understand how a mind can be bent.

If survivors could confront such complex experiences through art, my students could use art to think through our study of the Holocaust as well.

They decided to focus on the Holocaust as an example of the harm prejudice can do and modified a high school curriculum Smith had learned about at a workshop.

Although the students know they are safe — their parents are nearby throughout — they say it gives them an idea of what Jewish teenagers might have experienced during the Holocaust as they were rounded up and shipped off to camps.

Identifying these strategies to eliminate non-Serbs as a civil war is tantamount to defining the holocaust as a civil war between German Jews and German Arians.44 This is an example of how recent approaches to human rights can work to conceal and confound who is doing what to whom, thus effectively condoning such violations.45

To generalize the holocaust as «a bad thing that happened to some people» is kind of like, in some people opinions, forgetting the details of situation.

At least one Jewish philosopher explains the Holocaust as God's turning his face away.

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warningby timothy snydertim duggan books, 462 pages, $ 30 F aced with the challenge of finding something new to say about the Holocaust, a lesser author will offer a picture of Nazism that resembles his present - day political opponents.

And it is most unseemly that ADL treats the Holocaust as a dispute over a piece of merchandise.

From this paradigm comes his current focus on nuclearism; he sees the potential of nuclear holocaust as pervasive in our psyche, our society and our public policy.

Neither author regards the story of the Holocaust as sacred history or martyrology that is exempt from revisions that naturally occur in the light of new evidence and arguments — nor, they point out, have reputable historians treated it as such.

Consciousness of the Holocaust as a religious catastrophe has affected the attitudes of veteran Christian theologians.

We think of the Holocaust as a rampage of irrationality, but as we tend to overlook the banality of evil so also we overlook the rationality of evil.

If there is a certain skittishness when it comes to talking about them much, I suspect it is in large part because both have been exploited for ideological purposes: slavery to underscore black victimhood and to mandate compensatory attitudes and policies; the Holocaust as a convenient stick with which the ACLU and its like beat their «Fascist,» i.e., conservative, critics.

And No» a thousand times No» we can not, must not celebrate delightfully diverse stories that read the mouth - stopping horror of the Holocaust as the playfulness of power or a symphony of creativeness through death.

«some countries use the Holocaust as an «excuse to pay ransom... to Zionists.»

But the truly astounding fact is that such moments were not wholly absent from the Holocaust as it actually was.

Indeed, the problem with the Holocaust as a memory and a metaphor today is precisely that it is too powerful, an ever «expanding black hole of consciousness that invariably swallows up everything in its path.

Too often in Jewish - Christian exchanges, Jews play the Holocaust as trump, and Christians, on cue, engage in unseemly and implausible rites of self - denigration.

Treating the Holocaust as the central event in Jewish - Christian relations, however, grievously distorts both Judaism and Christianity.

If everyone gets a chance, then this means the victims of the holocaust as well.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the answer option of «less than one million» sparked outrage among many, who saw it as a nod to Holocaust deniers.

Meanwhile, a Holocaust denier who the GOP has denounced as a Nazi won the Republican primary after running unopposed.

Not quite sure what Holocaust resisters (incredibly brave as they may have been) have to do with creativity?

During his first administration, 2005 to 2010, he made an official three - day visit as a guest of then - president Shimon Peres, during which he visited the Weizmann Institute, the Schneider Children's Hospital and the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.

But then I thought of all the holocaust films my parents made me watch as a child so I quickly blurted out: «We're Jewish.»

He also charged that it was «not a coincidence» that the statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day came the same day as Trump's executive order, which he described as a «religious test,» chalking both up to the influence of top White House strategist Steve Bannon.

At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, audiences can walk alongside the rangers protecting elephants in Africa, see what it's like to be a tree, ride in an automated taxi transporting passengers, or follow a Holocaust survivor's steps as he visits the concentration camp he was held in for the last time.

When Victor Thorn, an author known for denying the Holocaust accusing the Clintons of murder, was reported to have died by suicide, the Trending Topics tab identified him as a «Clinton researcher» and promoted links speculating whether he had himself been murdered by the Clintons.

As long - time Google reporter Danny Sullivan points out, changes to the results may also be shaped by recent search activity in response to the controversy, and the arrival of new websites optimized to return queries about the Holocaust.

He serves as a coordinator for Bet Tzedek Legal Services» Holocaust Survivors Justice Network, assisting Holocaust survivors and their widows / widowers obtain reparation pension benefits for work performed while residing in German - controlled ghettos.

On the ninth anniversary of the opening of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie and the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, museum leaders were joined by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as they raised concerns over...

We could also mean true to the facts, as in, «This movie is an authentic account of the Holocaust.»

It's not just Holocaust victims that the Mormons are doing this to, it's everyone that they think they can get away with; Romney had his dead father - in - law (an atheist) «baptized» as a Mormon after he died.

Helmreich's research found that «some 1,500 Holocaust survivors and their families selected farming as an occupation after the war.»

As a historian I do not want people downplaying horrific events for modern points - be it the early persecution of the church, the Crusades, the holocaust - whatever it might be.

For this author to play it down is as absurd as Iran claiming the holocaust didn't happen either.

If i posted on a holocaust deniers blog would that mean i think it was a hoax as well?

So, long as they can go «Do you know there was Holocaust!?»

You cut through the modern politics and hand waving and what you have is that for at LEAST 200 years and probably more (longer than we've been around as a country) Christians were «held in contempt» to the point that for about 10 of those years several emperors pursued active policies of extermination (that's what the «actually persecuting» statement refers to - think holocaust type policies) that included some of the worst type of tortures known to humanity.

The evidence indicative of persecution of the Christians is certainly as strong as the case for the Holocaust.

No one kept those kinds of records which is why stories such as Perpetua's became so important as symbols of the persecution as a whole - serving much the same role as Anne Frank does today for the holocaust... a symbol of a sad and painful time.

perhaps she was trying to say is that an equal number of non-jews died in the holocaust but they are not discussed in history as much.

For 2,000 years through pogroms, inquisitions, crusades and holocausts the Jewish nation survived «never to be destroyed completely» just as promised in Leviticus.