THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="039f0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B>THE SHOAH AND HUMAN RIGHTS</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="038f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lecture_teaching.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults"><U><B>Lecture/Teaching Topics for Adults</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teenager Education Topics "><U><B>Teenager Education Topics</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Shoah/Holocaust"><U><B>The </B></U></A><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Shoah/Holocaust"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="READING THE SHOAH: Poetry and Memory"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reading the </B></U></A><A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="READING THE SHOAH: Poetry and Memory"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SHAPING THE SHOAH: the Second Generation"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Shaping the </B></U></A><A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SHAPING THE SHOAH: the Second Generation"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH and JEWISH WOMENS POETRY"><U><B> and Jewish Women's Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN: The Shoah Poetry"><U><B> Poetry of Abraham Moses Klein</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish D"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The </B></U></A><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish D"><U><I><B>Shoah</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="THE SHOAH: Gentile Responses to Jewish D"><U><B>: Gentile Responses to Jewish Disaster</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact JEWISH VOICES"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Contact JEWISH VOICES</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jewish Voices 200 Years of Jewish Poetry"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007700f099000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Home</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03bf0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>The </B></I><B>Shoah</B><I><B> and Human Rights</B></I></div> <bR> <div>     While the <I><B>Shoah</B></I> was surely an enormous disaster for world Jewry, it also bears connection to the genocides committed against other peoples in the twentieth century.  How have Jewish writers integrated into their works the universal themes of radical dehumanization and violated human rights? What problems have they faced in "letting go" of particular Jewish pain to embrace a more "universal" vision?  </div> <div>      In what ways have Jewish writers made comparisons with other mass murders, and to what ends?  Does "humanitarian" poetry that relates the Shoah to other genocides diminish the import of the Shoah in the Jewish consciousness?  </div> <bR> <div>     Texts from <I><B>Adrienne Rich, Anthony Hecht, Muriel Rukeyser</B></I>,<B> </B>others: poems by Gentile writers for comparative purposes.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>