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Victoria Barnett

Victoria Barnett is the associate general editor of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works (English edition) and author of Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity During the Holocaust (Greenwood).

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Do-gooder dilemma

During the 1890s, almost 200,000 Armenians were...
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Marriage and Modernization: How Globalization Threatens Marriage and What to Do About It

The phrase “family values” became an early catchword in the culture wars....
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Clowns and jokers

Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth. By Joe Conason. St. Martin's, 240 pp., $24.95...
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Rescue mission

A decade ago humanitarian interventi...
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Learning from History and The Holocaust Encyclopedia

Two recent books reflect contrasting approaches to the study of the Holocaust....
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Guilt and complexity: The Holocaust's lessons for the church

Controversy about the role of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust has raged ever since Rolf Hochhuth’s play The Deputy was first performed in 1965, but the debate has ...
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Dangerous Diplomacy, by Theo Tschuy

One of the most unusual rescuers of European Jews during the Holocaust was Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz....
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The sound of faith

My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the Music of Bach, by Calvin R. StapertJohanne Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, by Christoph Wolff...
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Payback? Racism, reparations and accountability: Racism, reparations and accountability

In 1969, I dropped out of college, moved to Racine, Wisconsin, and worked for a community action program and then for a welfare rights organization....
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Provocative reconciliation: A Jewish statement on Christianity

Saying that it was time “for Jews to learn about the efforts of Christians to honor Judaism,” over 170 Jewish leaders from all branches of Judaism have signed a statement outlining eight points of ...

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Ordinary people and the Holocaust

The 20th century has been scarred by the mass murder of ethnic groups in Armenia, Nazi-occupied Europe, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo. On a smaller scale, hate crimes against certain groups also erupt in this country. What factors converge to make such violence possible? Can anything be done to prevent it?

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