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Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "My mother and father, survivors of Auschwitz, Dachau, and Buchenwald, had decided not to frighten me with their recollections about the death camps..." (more)
Key Phrases: new information dictates, hearing the other side, belief perseverance, World War, Hannah Arendt, Third Reich (more...)

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In 1992 Weissmark brought together 22 Jews and Germans for a four-day meeting at Harvard University. They were sons and daughters of concentration camp survivors and sons and daughters of Nazis. Weissmark, a psychologist and the child of Holocaust survivors, undertook a study to examine how injustice influences interpersonal behavior as the participants tried to come to terms with the past and with each other. Drawing on interviews and the conference findings, the book uncovers a complex story and reveals how unjust, painful events of years ago continue to shape the legacies of both survivors' and Nazis' children. Weissmark explores the question, "Can good people pursue heinous acts?"; reviews research concerning the psychology of injustice; analyzes research concerning people's experience of injustice; and provides a framework for understanding how emotions and cognitions follow the perception of injustice. The book is a major contribution to the study of the descendants of survivors and perpetrators. George Cohen
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"...a significant addition to the literature of the Holocaust...the potential of this important book far exceeds its perspectives on the Holocaust..." -Harvard Review
"...covers interesting ground of use to second generations who will be working through the issues for many years to come."--Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies

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Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (January 29, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195157575
ISBN-13: 978-0195157574
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
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new information dictates, hearing the other side, belief perseverance, biased assimilation, hypothetical reasoning

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World War, Hannah Arendt, Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann, Pastor Seebasz, Nazi Germany, New York, Northern Ireland, United States, West Germans, Elie Wiesel, Hungarian Jews, Middle East, West Germany, Abba Kovner

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This book cites 37 books:

Doing Psychotherapy Effectively by Mona Sue Weissmark on page 98, and Back Matter
Social Psychology by Eliot R. Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Research on negotiation in organizations, Volume 4 (Research on Negotiations in Organizations) by Roy J. Lewicki in Back Matter
Social Psychology, Third Edition by Michael A. Hogg in Back Matter
Outlines & Highlights for Social Psychology by Michener ISBN: 0534583210 (Cram101 Textbook Outlines) by Cram101 Textbook Reviews in Back Matter

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5.0 out of 5 stars From rage to reconciliation: an historic achievement, March 6, 2004

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In "Justice Matters" Mona Weissmark has made unique and critical contributions to a central problem ouf our times. How can the children of those who survived the genocidal crimes of the Holocaust come to understand the children of those who perpetrated those crimes? Can understanding bring reconciliation and lift the burden of the past from the shoulders of both groups? In this book Weissmark described her groundbreaking work whereby she brought the children of Holocaust victims face to face with the children of Nazis for discussion of their feelings - rage, resentment, guilt, defensiveness and denial - and the extraordinary consequences that followed. Compassion and forgiveness, reconciliation and recognition of past crimes emerge to point a way to the peaceful solution of intense differences of a kind that threaten the peace of the world in or own day.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Time for Everything, December 4, 2003

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Springing from an unprecedented meeting between the sons and daughters of the Holocaust and the children of the Third Reich, Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II takes readers on an unparalleled journey of hatred and ethnic resentments. Although more than half a century has passed, recollections of the Holocaust and WWII still sear the lives of survivors, their children and grandchildren. Weissmark's book shows how the cycle of ethnic and religious strife is kept alive generation after generation through story-telling, with each side recounting the injustice it suffered and the valor it showed in avenging its own group. Describing how these stories or "legacies" transmit moral values, beliefs and emotions and thus preserve the past, Weissmark writes: "Unjust acts that have not been reconciled are stored in legacies as if packed in ice." The lessons of Justice Matters speak to a world reeling from unhealed wounds, providing insights into myriad conflicts ranging from centuries old disputes in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, to racial strife in America's ghettos. Weissmark presents an inspiring recipe for reconciliation, asserting that it is not enough for the antagonist to agree to talk. Each side also must agree to moderate their own emotions and dispense with the notion that they are the most aggrieved. Justice Matters is about hearing the other side, seeing the other view. The story of how children of the Holocaust and children of the Nazis struggled to come to terms with their past has universal applications for any people, and culture, riven with a legacy of resentment.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Dramatic Investigation, March 4, 2004

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If we were children of survivors of the Holocaust what would we say to children of the Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust? In this book, Mona Weissmark describes what must surely be one of the most dramatic investigations of the last 50 years. She brought together 10 children of concentration camp survivors and 10 children of Nazis; 20 people who talked together over a period of four days. The profoundly moving events of those four days are documented here with the richest moments coming in the words of these two groups of participants as they spoke of their lonely but intertwined heritages. The author places the events of these four days into a scholarly context of social psychology, developmental psychology, evolutionary psychology, clinical psychology, history, psychiatry, philosophy, and theology. This book will prove hard to put down and even harder to forget.

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