History vs. Apologetics: The Holocaust, the Third Reich, and the Catholic Church, David Cymet (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010) xviii + 499 pp., hardcover 120.00, paperback 47.99, electronic version available
This book is rather difficult to review, not so much because of its subject matter or the author's error-laden and insufficiently nuanced treatment, but because of the imperative to judge it according to its own stated objectives while simultaneously holding it to scholarly standards that both...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 305-307 |
| Review of: | History vs. apologetics (Lanham [u.a.] : Lexington Books, 2010) (Hastings, Derek)
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| Summary: | This book is rather difficult to review, not so much because of its subject matter or the author's error-laden and insufficiently nuanced treatment, but because of the imperative to judge it according to its own stated objectives while simultaneously holding it to scholarly standards that both author and publisher seem at times to have shortchanged. David Cymet, an architect by training, sets out to contribute to recent debates over the Catholic Church's response to the Holocaust, separating, as his title indicates, history from apologetics. The result is an impassioned, yet in my view deeply flawed indictment of both the silence and complicity of the Church, and particularly of Pope Pius XII., The strongest parts of the book narrate familiar developments. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcv038 |