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The contributors to this volume use their expertise in Holocaust studies to reflect on ethical, religious, and legal aspects of torture, then and now.

Table of Contents

Prologue The Questions of Torture / Leonard Grob and John K. Roth

Part One What Is Torture?

1. Torture during the Holocaust: Responsible Witnessing / Leonard Grob

2. Torture / Björn Krondorfer

3. Speech under Torture: Bearing Witness to the Howl / Dorota Glowacka

Part Two Is Torture Justifiable?

4. Johann Baptist Neuhäusler and Torture in Dachau / Suzanne Brown-Fleming

5. The Emerging Halachic Debate about Torture / Peter J. Haas

6. Torture in Light of the Holocaust: An Impossible Possibility / Didier Pollefeyt

7. The Justification of Suffering: Holocaust Theodicy and Torture / Sarah K. Pinnock

Part Three What Can Be Done about Torture?

8. Assuaging Pain: Therapeutic Care for Torture Survivors / Margaret Brearley

9. Torture and the Totalitarian Appropriation of the Human Being: From National Socialism to Islamic Jidhadism / David Patterson

10. Crying Out: Rape as Torture and the Responsibility to Protect / John K. Roth

Epilogue Again, the Questions of Torture / Leonard Grob and John K. Roth

Selected Bibliography

Editors and Contributors

Index

About the Author

Leonard Grob is professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University. John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights), Claremont McKenna College. The other contributors are Margaret Brearley, Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Dorota Glowacka, Peter J. Haas, Björn Krondorfer, David Patterson, Sarah K. Pinnock, and Didier Pollefeyt.

Reviews

"A compelling body of essays. . . . Readable and challenging. In the end, I'm not sure I know exactly how to 'confront' torture. But I am better equipped to try." - Kelly McFall (New Books in Genocide Studies (NBN)) "Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture, in which Holocaust scholars employ their expertise to target the crime of torture, is long overdue. . . . [Survivors of torture] know that the only way to put an end to the horror of such abuse is by telling their stories and building alliances with others. . . . The very existence of the book signals that these Holocaust scholars intend to be powerful allies in that struggle." (Human Rights Quarterly)