Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses during and after the HolocaustSteven T. Katz, Shlomo Biderman, Gershon Greenberg Oxford University Press, 2007 M01 4 - 704 pages This volume presents a wide-ranging selection of Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust. It will be the most complete anthology of its sort, bringing together for the first time: (1) a large sample of ultra-orthodox writings, translated from the Hebrew and Yiddish; (2) a substantial selection of essays by Israeli authors, also translated from the Hebrew; (3) a broad sampling of works written in English by American and European authors. These diverse selections represent virtually every significant theological position that has been articulated by a Jewish thinker in response to the Holocaust. Included are rarely studied responses that were written while the Holocaust was happening. |
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... modern Orthodox), were steeped in rabbinic and kabbalistic traditions. These traditions provided a context for response that was unavailable to other (modern) forms of Judaism. Reform Judaism had no alternate, independent, that is ...
... modern Orthodox), were steeped in rabbinic and kabbalistic traditions. These traditions provided a context for response that was unavailable to other (modern) forms of Judaism. Reform Judaism had no alternate, independent, that is ...
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... modern figures. R. Elijah of Vilna, known as the Gaon (genius) of Vilna (1720–1797), was a source for H.arlap and Tsimerman.15 Yisrael Lipkin Salant (1810–1883), the founder of the Musar (ethics) movement (1810– 1883), influenced Sarna ...
... modern figures. R. Elijah of Vilna, known as the Gaon (genius) of Vilna (1720–1797), was a source for H.arlap and Tsimerman.15 Yisrael Lipkin Salant (1810–1883), the founder of the Musar (ethics) movement (1810– 1883), influenced Sarna ...
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... (modern rationalism and enlightenment) in the 1930s, dropped the attack once the war began. But many others did find Jews to blame: the assimilationists and secular Zionists. Among the Mizra_hi, Amiel, the chief rabbi of Tel Aviv ...
... (modern rationalism and enlightenment) in the 1930s, dropped the attack once the war began. But many others did find Jews to blame: the assimilationists and secular Zionists. Among the Mizra_hi, Amiel, the chief rabbi of Tel Aviv ...
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... modern science and philosophy. Theodore Herzl (1860–1904) was the leader of the modern political Zionist movement who created the World Zionist Organization in the 1890s. 22. On Torah and catastrophe, see Benyamin Brown, ''Doktrinat Da ...
... modern science and philosophy. Theodore Herzl (1860–1904) was the leader of the modern political Zionist movement who created the World Zionist Organization in the 1890s. 22. On Torah and catastrophe, see Benyamin Brown, ''Doktrinat Da ...
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... modern wealthy people. They meet to give money to all those things to which we should not donate. Where they should give, where the Torah tells us to give, they are nowhere to be found. They are surrounded by guards who do not let them ...
... modern wealthy people. They meet to give money to all those things to which we should not donate. Where they should give, where the Torah tells us to give, they are nowhere to be found. They are surrounded by guards who do not let them ...
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Israeli Responses during and following the War | 203 |
European and American Responses during and following the War | 353 |
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