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Reply to the Eckardts on "Uniqueness"

Reply to the Eckardts on "Uniqueness" Steven T. Katz Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 13, Number 4, Summer 1995, pp. 78-82 (Article) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.1995.0079 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/473071/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:23 GMT from JHU Libraries 78 SHOFAR Summer 1995 Vol. 13, No.4 metaphysical analysis!-when will Professor Katz ever learn this? The fact stands that Katz has no right to deny, in effect, the dignity of those human beings for whom the singularity of the Holocaust lies in their existential/ fateful consanguinity with a historically victimizing community, and who are now living out responding lives of penitence in consequence of such horrible praxis. Perhaps if Professor Katz ever begins to comprehend this state of affairs, he will himself repent and stop transmogrifying Alice and Roy Eckardt into devotees of a mysticism and mystification they in truth steadfastly reject. by Steven T. Katz Cornell University I am sorry that Alice and Roy Eckardt took such intense offense at my discussion of their work on the uniqueness of the Holocaust. I have always admired their principled stand on antisemitism in the Church and other issues and wish that this intellectual confrontation could have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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Steven T. Katz Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 13, Number 4, Summer 1995, pp. 78-82 (Article) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.1995.0079 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/473071/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:23 GMT from JHU Libraries 78 SHOFAR Summer 1995 Vol. 13, No.4 metaphysical analysis!-when will Professor Katz ever learn this? The fact stands that Katz has no right to deny, in effect, the dignity of those human beings for whom the singularity of the Holocaust lies in their existential/ fateful consanguinity with a historically victimizing community, and who are now living out responding lives of penitence in consequence of such horrible praxis. Perhaps if Professor Katz ever begins to comprehend this state of affairs, he will himself repent and stop transmogrifying Alice and Roy Eckardt into devotees of a mysticism and mystification they in truth steadfastly reject. by Steven T. Katz Cornell University I am sorry that Alice and Roy Eckardt took such intense offense at my discussion of their work on the uniqueness of the Holocaust. I have always admired their principled stand on antisemitism in the Church and other issues and wish that this intellectual confrontation could have

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