Introduction: The German Problem of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung Part I: The Jewish Devise of Repentance: From Individual, Divine-Human to Interhuman, Collective "Turning" Chapter 1: "Turning" in the God-human relationship Chapter 2: Interhuman and collective repentance ) Part II: Mutual-Turning in German Vergangenheitsbewaltigung: Responses and Correspondence 1: "People, not devils" 2: "Fascism was the great apostasy" 3: "The French must love the German spirit now entrusted to them" 4: "One cannot speak of injustice without raising the question of guilt" 5: "You won't believe how thankful I am for what you have said" 6: "Courage to say No and still more courage to say Yes" (P6) Chapter 7: "Raise our voice, both Jews and Germans" 8: "The appropriateness of each proposition depends upon who utters it" 9: "Hitler is in ourselves, too" 10: "I am Germany" 11: "Know before whom you will have to give an account" 12: "We take over the guilt of the fathers" 13: "Remember the evil, but do not forget the good" 14: "We are not authorized to forgive"
C. K. Martin Chung is Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Government and International Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.
"C. K. Martin Chung considers the Jewish-German relationship after the Holocaust with a high level of ethical sensitivity and subtlety, an unwavering compassion, and a sense for the necessity of justice as well as mercy in dealing with this history. His approach calls to mind the orientation of G. E. Lessing or much more recently Emmanuel Levinas, both of whom stress, within widely divergent discourses, the priority of the ethical over the epistemological. Chung has written a history of post-Holocaust repentance that reveals what might become universally available guidelines for reconciliation processes in various global contexts."-Jeffrey S. Librett, University of Oregon, author of Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew "With Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung has accomplished a truly remarkable feat of scholarship and theological understanding, moving through biblical and rabbinic texts with ease and then addressing complex issues of modern Jewish thought as well as Christian theology. But what is extraordinary about the book is its overall argument. The idea that there are theological resources within Judaism, unique to Judaism, that have something important to say to Germans after the Holocaust is something I have never heard articulated by anyone, Jew or Christian. I am simply amazed by the audacity and brilliance. Chung's book will spark wonderful discussions among scholars, and I can't wait to participate in them."-Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College, author of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
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