Book chapter
Looking Beyond
Stealth Altruism, pp 237-246
2017
Abstract
Philosophy Professor Yoram Lubling, an Israeli-born son of survivors, contends that the Nazi period of history, with its "unspeakable violation of personhood and total elimination of life", has made Holocaust research and memory "one of the most burning issues of this time". A valuable way of gaining attention would be to have more survivors tell more about "acts of goodness", theirs and that of others, especially acts of stealth altruism. On a related front, performances could be held in museum auditoriums of cultural material with Help Story content. The Defiant Requiem Foundation, for example, has $20,000 grants to support bringing to college campuses the "Terezin Legacy". Easily the most daring of relevant innovations is a project known as New Dimensions in Technology, an ongoing effort to develop permanent 3-D simulations of different types of Holocaust survivors. A new interdisciplinary academic specialization can shed light on stealth altruism and the lives of Carers.
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Details
- Title
- Looking Beyond
- Creators
- Arthur B. Shostak
- Publication Details
- Stealth Altruism, pp 237-246
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Culture and Communication [Historical]
- Other Identifier
- 991020705337304721