ABSTRACT
Jonathan Petropoulos says that Holocaust studies and education are not vaccines against unethical behavior, while Sara Horowitz thinks study of the Holocaust can help students shape an ethics for our time, for our place. John K. Roth admits that advances in Holocaust studies have not been nearly enough to curb antisemitism’s global resurgence, nor have they stalled the wrack and ruin of crimes against humanity, checked the devastation of genocide, or cut short relentless assaults on human flourishing. So, does Roth put too much stock in the Holocaust’s presumed power to raise the right questions? And how much weight can those questions bear anyway? Literally, millions and millions of people—young and old, Jews and non-Jews, in the United States and around the world—have heard, read about, studied, researched, and commemorated the Holocaust. In this chapter, the author teaches many of the students who have studied about the Holocaust in our schools, colleges, and universities.
