Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
14,1 (2008) 93-116
Keywords:
Arendt, Hannah,
;
Scholem, Gershom,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
In the wake of the publication of "Eichmann in Jerusalem", Gershom Scholem sent a critical letter to Arendt, to which she responded. Scholem blamed her for accusing the whole of the Jewish people, rather than its leaders, of collaboration, which he regarded as tantamount to antisemitism and moral relativism; Arendt returned the accusation of antisemitism and immorality. Compares their perspectives on Jewish responsibility for the Holocaust and the possibility of judgment, and concludes that the arguments and perspectives of both Arendt and Scholem are problematic and reprehensible. Scholem's position that the Jews as victims cannot be judged leads to the stance that the Holocaust cannot be compared to any other crime. States that Scholem unconsciously uses the Nazi definition of Jews as a racial entity rather than a spiritual one.
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