Overview

One generally speaks of the Holocaust as referring to the Nazis' ""final solution"" during World War II to eliminate the Jewish population of Europe. However, the word generally is defined in dictionaries today as follows: ""destruction or slaughter on a mass scale."" The poems in this book are inspired by the State of Israel's goal and determination to eliminate the Palestinian population of Gaza (ca. 2.2 million Palestinians, before the current war) by any means: destruction, starvation, or with weapons. Therefore, this book is titled A Gazan Holocaust. Surely there is no simplistic answer for Israel and the Palestinians, including the blunt, misdirected concept of a divinity who has authorized, by any means possible, the killing and dispossession of peoples to award specific territory and its governance to some, to the exclusion of all others. What a tragic misuse of the message of the biblical prophets. These poems raise a persistent question regarding injustice to and murder of women and children: Is there no remnant of humaneness left which shows that humans know the meaning of grace and kindness? Where can Jews, Muslims, and Christians find release from the tragedy of war and its innumerable losses? In the Holy Land?

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""S T Kimbrough's poems are born of the poet's daily wrestling with the unspeakable tragedy of the Gazan Holocaust. His poems lament the shocking betrayal of cherished moral and spiritual values, and the failure to stop the madness. To read this book is to discover a kinship with one who shares our outrage and profound sorrow, and who offers tear-stained verses to sustain us in resistance, hope, and action for the rebirth of the world."" --J. Mark Davidson, Executive Director, Voices for Justice in Palestine ""This book is existentially devastating and theologically critical. It reflects the awful magnitude of the tragedy in Palestine, and profoundly exposes the prejudice, hate, ignorance, and ability to be genocidal and homicidal, all while hiding behind victimhood, survival, and religious bigotry. As Americans we are directly implicated in this tragedy. The poems vociferously demand overcoming complacency and complicity and scream for immediate justice for Palestinians. This book makes it imperative that Christians never be quiet in the face of such evil and devastating injustice (Matthew 25; I John 4:19-21)."" --Charles Amjad-Ali, The Martin Luther King Jr. Professor Emeritus of Justice and Christian Community, Luther Seminary ""S T Kimbrough's poems are born of the poet's daily wrestling with the unspeakable tragedy of the Gazan Holocaust. His poems lament the shocking betrayal of cherished moral and spiritual values, and the failure to stop the madness. To read this book is to discover a kinship with one who shares our outrage and profound sorrow, and who offers tear-stained verses to sustain us in resistance, hope, and action for the rebirth of the world."" --J. Mark Davidson, Executive Director, Voices for Justice in Palestine ""This book is existentially devastating and theologically critical. It reflects the awful magnitude of the tragedy in Palestine, and profoundly exposes the prejudice, hate, ignorance, and ability to be genocidal and homicidal, all while hiding behind victimhood, survival, and religious bigotry. As Americans we are directly implicated in this tragedy. The poems vociferously demand overcoming complacency and complicity and scream for immediate justice for Palestinians. This book makes it imperative that Christians never be quiet in the face of such evil and devastating injustice (Matthew 25; I John 4:19-21)."" --Charles Amjad-Ali, The Martin Luther King Jr. Professor Emeritus of Justice and Christian Community, Luther Seminary

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S T Kimbrough Jr. holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently a Research Fellow of the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition at Duke Divinity School. He has taught on leading theological faculties in Europe, including Institut für Religionswissenschaft of Bonn University, the Illiricus Faculty in Zagreb (Croatia), and in the USA. He has published numerous books on theology, history, and music with Wipf and Stock, as well as over two dozen books of poetry.

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