Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Judaism; a Journal of Jewish Life & Thought
Angaben zur Quelle:
46,1 (1997) 91-96
Keywords:
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
Abstract:
Questions the appropriateness of the term "Righteous Gentile, " used by Yad Vashem to designate those who saved Jews at the risk of their own lives during the Holocaust. Suggests that this terminology appears to allow for only two categories of Gentile - righteous and non-righteous - whereas in reality there were three: evil (those who committed the crimes of the Holocaust), heroically good (those who did more than what morality required by risking their lives to save Jews - those now termed "righteous"), and those who did what Noahide laws and morality required by declining to participate in the evil (e.g. those who declined on principle to join German killing squads or betray hidden Jews). It is these latter who really should be termed "righteous." Some other term is needed for the more-than-righteous heroic Gentile rescuers. also questions distinguishing between "righteous" Gentiles and Jews.
Note:
On use of the term "righteous".
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Another version appeared in his "The Future of the Holocaust" (1999).
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