Sublime

Adolf Eichmann had been a Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the architects of the Holocaust, a central figure at the Wannsee Conference that decided on the Final Solution, and, at the time of his capture, the highest-ranking Nazi official still alive. He had spent most of his time after the war living under a pseudonym in

Auschwitz God died, and we are alone in a pitiless universe.

Zalmen Gradowski.

If anything, this felt more like Paris in 2005—a place where there was no shortage of legal protections and official goodwill, but where one wouldn’t be crazy to occasionally hide a yarmulke under a baseball hat. Yet the thought of explaining this was exhausting too, and also beside the point.

The tragic consequences were immense. The negative portrayal of Jews and Judaism in the early Christian literature led to centuries of persecutions, crusades, blood libels, expulsions, disputations, inquisitions and pogroms.

Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums,

The division between the poor and the relatively rich becomes an abyss. Traditional restraints and recommendations are shattered. Consumerism consumes all questioning. The past becomes obsolete. Consequently people lose their selfhood, their sense of identity, and they then locate and find an enemy in order to define themselves. The enemy – whateve