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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A compelling body of essays. . . . Readable and challenging. In the end, I’m not sure I know exactly how to ‘confront’ torture. But I am better equipped to try."
-- Kelly McFall * New Books in Genocide Studies (NBN) *
"Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture, in which Holocaust scholars employ their expertise to target the crime of torture, is long overdue. . . . [Survivors of torture] know that the only way to put an end to the horror of such abuse is by telling their stories and building alliances with others. . . . The very existence of the book signals that these Holocaust scholars intend to be powerful allies in that struggle."
* Human Rights Quarterly *
Table of ContentsPrologue | The Questions of Torture / Leonard Grob and John K. Roth
Part One | What Is Torture?
1. Torture during the Holocaust: Responsible Witnessing / Leonard Grob
2. Torture / Björn Krondorfer
3. Speech under Torture: Bearing Witness to the Howl / Dorota Glowacka
Part Two | Is Torture Justifiable?
4. Johann Baptist Neuhäusler and Torture in Dachau / Suzanne Brown-Fleming
5. The Emerging Halachic Debate about Torture / Peter J. Haas
6. Torture in Light of the Holocaust: An Impossible Possibility / Didier Pollefeyt
7. The Justification of Suffering: Holocaust Theodicy and Torture / Sarah K. Pinnock
Part Three | What Can Be Done about Torture?
8. Assuaging Pain: Therapeutic Care for Torture Survivors / Margaret Brearley
9. Torture and the Totalitarian Appropriation of the Human Being: From National Socialism to Islamic Jidhadism / David Patterson
10. Crying Out: Rape as Torture and the Responsibility to Protect / John K. Roth
Epilogue | Again, the Questions of Torture / Leonard Grob and John K. Roth
Selected Bibliography
Editors and Contributors
Index
