This essay analyses the Holocaust-related commemorative practices of three Jewish publics during the past 50 years: the "Centrist," "Ultra-Orthodox" and "Universalist" schools of thought. Each of these groups represents for theologians a major school of belief and practice within contemporary Judaism.
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