Pilgrim to Unholy Places : Christians and Jews Re-visit the Holocaust

Based In New Zealand, The Author, An Anglican Priest, Made A Number Of Pilgrimages 1995-2008 To The Extermination (and Other Camp) Sites Of The Third Reich, 1933-45. These Find Expression In Diary Entries That Describe The Sites As They Now Are And Scope The Problems They Raise For Both Jews And Christians. The Book Thus Places The Holocaust At The Centre Of Jewish-christian Dialogue. In Face Of The Silence Of God And The Choiceless Choices Of The Victims, The Central Question Is How We - Jews And Christians - Can Talk Agency Either Of God Or The Inmates. With A View To Opening A Conversation Between Auschwitz And Golgotha, The Author Invites The Jewish Interlocutor Into A Consideration Of The Jewish Victim Christ In The 'no-way-out' Of The Cross. Can There Then Be Mutual Recognition Between The Many Jews Of Heroic Faith And Self-sacrificing Love In The Death Camps And The Victim Caring Christ? Three Examples Are Cited: A Mrs Levy At Auschwitz; The Paris Rabbi, Berek Kofman; And Janusz Korczak At Treblinka. These And Others Like Them Embody An Ethic Of Caring That Allow Us To Be Hopeful About The Modern World. Raymond Pelly. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 359-365) Cover Foreword Preface Table of contents Introduction: ‘Raids on the Unspeakable’ I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. Part I: Diaries / Memory Auschwitz, 1995 Tuesday, 8th August Wednesday, 9th August Saturday, 12th August Sunday, 13th August Monday, 14th August Tuesday, 15th August Wednesday, 16th August Dachau, 1995 Wednesday, 16th August Thursday, 17th August Friday, Saturday, 18th, 19th August Sunday, 20th August L’Viv, Cernitsa, Warsaw, Treblinka, 2001 Thursday, 12th July Friday–Sunday, 13th –15th July Sunday, 15th July Monday, 16th July Wednesday, 18th July Thursday, 19th July Friday, 20th July Majdanek, Sobibór, Belźec, 2001 Saturday, 21st July Sunday, 22nd July Monday, 23rd July Tuesday, 24th July Wednesday, 25th July Dachau, Mauthausen, Hartheim Castle, Flossenbürg, Buchenwald, 2003 Friday, 1st August Saturday and Sunday, 2nd– 3rd August Monday, 4th August Tuesday, 5th August Wednesday, 6th August Thursday, 7th August Friday/ Saturday, 8th/9th August Sunday, 10th August Monday, 11th August Tuesday, 12th August Wednesday, Thursday, 13th/ 14th August Berlin, 2003 Friday, 15th – Tuesday, 19th August, Berlin Saturday, 16th August Sunday, 17th August Monday, 18th August Tuesday, 19th August Wednesday, 20th August Thursday, 21st August Friday, 22nd August Mittelbau Dora, Leitenberg, 2006 Saturday, 2nd December Sunday, 10th December, Dachau/Leitenberg Esterwegen, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, 2008 Monday, 20th October Tuesday, 21st October Thursday, 23rd October Friday, Saturday, 24th and 25th October Part II: Reflections Theology / Ethics / Spirituality 1. Hearing the Cries: The Self-emptying Pilgrim Christ Philippians 2:5–11 on Kenosis I. II. III. IV. V. VI. A. On Being a Pilgrim 2. Pilgrim to Unholy Places: A Definition I. II. III. IV. 3. Thinking with Your Feet: The Pilgrim’s Way of Knowing I. II. III. IV. V. VI. 4. Kneeling and Surviving: The Pilgrim and Prayer I. II. III. IV. V. B. Holy / Unholy 5. Unholy Places: Site-specific Reckoning with Evil I. II. III. IV. V. 6. Holy Places I: Paul Celan and Grief I. II. III. IV. 7. Holy Places II: Paul Ricoeur and Memory I. II. III. IV. V. C. Jewish–Christian Dialogue 8. Rachel Weeping For Her Children: Biblical Precursor of the Holocaust I. II. III. 9. Jewish Responses to the Holocaust: Agency, Divine and Human I. II. III. IV. V. VI. 10. Auschwitz and Golgotha (1): Analogue or Adversary? I. II. III. 11. Auschwitz and Golgotha (2): Impulses for a Shared Covenantal Ethic I. II. III. IV. D. Learning from the Shoah 12. God as Co-Passionate: Abyss of Love, Victim-Survivor I. II. III. 13. Christ and Horrors: Engführung: Narrowing / Impasse I. II. III. IV. 14. Recognition, Thanksgiving: Honour, Gratitude I. II. III. IV. E. Last word 15. Real Hope in the Real World? I. II. III. IV. V. Appendix: On De- and Reconstructing Root Metaphors: The Analogy of the Sun Bibliography About the author

Based in New Zealand, the author, an Anglican priest, made a number of pilgrimages 1995–2008 to the extermination (and other camp) sites of the Third Reich, 1933–45. These find expression in Diary entries that describe the sites as they now are and scope the problems they raise for both Jews and Christians.

The book thus places the Holocaust at the centre of Jewish-Christian dialogue. In face of the silence of God and the choiceless choices of the victims, the central question is how we – Jews and Christians – can talk agency either of God or the inmates. With a view to opening a conversation between Auschwitz and Golgotha, the author invites the Jewish interlocutor into a consideration of the Jewish victim Christ in the 'no-way-out' of the cross.

Can there then be mutual recognition between the many Jews of heroic faith and self-sacrificing love in the death camps and the victim caring Christ? Three examples are cited: a Mrs Levy at Auschwitz; the Paris Rabbi, Berek Kofman; and Janusz Korczak at Treblinka. These and others like them embody an ethic of caring that allow us to be hopeful about the modern world.

Based in New Zealand, the author, an Anglican priest, made a number of pilgrimages 1995–2008 to the extermination (and other camp) sites of the Third Reich, 1933–45. These find expression in Diary entries that describe the sites as they now are and scope the problems they raise for both Jews and Christians.

The book thus places the Holocaust at the centre of Jewish-Christian dialogue. In face of the silence of God and the choiceless choices of the victims, the central question is how we – Jews and Christians – can talk agency either of God or the inmates. With a view to opening a conversation between Auschwitz and Golgotha, the author invites the Jewish interlocutor into a consideration of the Jewish victim Christ in the ‘no-way-out’ of the cross.

Can there then be mutual recognition between the many Jews of heroic faith and self-sacrificing love in the death camps and the victim caring Christ? Three examples are cited: a Mrs Levy at Auschwitz; the Paris Rabbi, Berek Kofman; and Janusz Korczak at Treblinka. These and others like them embody an ethic of caring that allow us to be hopeful about the modern world.

"Based in New Zealand, the author, an Anglican priest, made a number of pilgrimages 1995-2008 to the extermination (and other camp) sites of the Third Reich, 1933-45. These find expression in Diary entries that describe the sites as they now are and scope the problems they raise for both Jews and Christians. The book thus places the Holocaust at the centre of Jewish-Christian dialogue. In face of the silence of God and the choiceless choices of the victims, the central question is how we - Jews and Christians - can talk agency either of God or the inmates. With a view to opening a conversation between Auschwitz and Golgotha, the author invites the Jewish interlocutor into a consideration of the Jewish victim Christ in the 'no-way-out' of the cross. Can there then be mutual recognition between the many Jews of heroic faith and self-sacrificing love in the death camps and the victim caring Christ? Three examples are cited: a Mrs Levy at Auschwitz; the Paris Rabbi, Berek Kofman; and Janusz Korczak at Treblinka. These and others like them embody an ethic of caring that allow us to be hopeful about the modern world"--Back cover Through visiting Auschwitz and other horror sites of the Third Reich, the author reflects on the meaning of belief and ethics in today’s world in dialogue with Jewish thinkers. His standpoint is the victim Christ of Philippians 2:5–11, a Jewish victim among others and therefore one open to mutual recognition, each hearing the cries of the other.