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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... Penitent Return and Restoration 134 Ya'akov Mosheh _Harlap Waters Sublime: From the Sources of Salvation 147 Letter to Barukh Ye_hiel Duvdevani in Saint Cesarea, Italy, DP Camp, 3 October 1946 [Two Days before Yom Kippur] 151 Towards ...
... Penitent Return and Restoration 134 Ya'akov Mosheh _Harlap Waters Sublime: From the Sources of Salvation 147 Letter to Barukh Ye_hiel Duvdevani in Saint Cesarea, Italy, DP Camp, 3 October 1946 [Two Days before Yom Kippur] 151 Towards ...
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... penitent return). Thus, divine intervention (metahistorical) was interpreted as a response to Jewish assimilation in the modern era in measure-to-measure fashion—for example, Nazi strictures against Jews' entering public places were ...
... penitent return). Thus, divine intervention (metahistorical) was interpreted as a response to Jewish assimilation in the modern era in measure-to-measure fashion—for example, Nazi strictures against Jews' entering public places were ...
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... (penitent return). Remarkably, these and other paradoxes and ambiguities did not appear to overwhelm, to silence, the thinkers. They lived with them, demonstrating de facto that the ideas nevertheless functioned as viable com- ponents of ...
... (penitent return). Remarkably, these and other paradoxes and ambiguities did not appear to overwhelm, to silence, the thinkers. They lived with them, demonstrating de facto that the ideas nevertheless functioned as viable com- ponents of ...
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... penitent return to God (teshuvah) and the possible last-minute teshuvah and rescue of all Jews. Taykhtahl in Budapest focused on the divine mandate for return of the people to the Land of Israel; Shapira on the existential challenge to ...
... penitent return to God (teshuvah) and the possible last-minute teshuvah and rescue of all Jews. Taykhtahl in Budapest focused on the divine mandate for return of the people to the Land of Israel; Shapira on the existential challenge to ...
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... penitent return, it will arise in the will of the Blessed Name to lighten our burden. Perhaps His mercy and unconditional _hesed (lovingkindness) for us will be aroused. As we say in the Seli_hot (penitential prayer), ''Turn to the ...
... penitent return, it will arise in the will of the Blessed Name to lighten our burden. Perhaps His mercy and unconditional _hesed (lovingkindness) for us will be aroused. As we say in the Seli_hot (penitential prayer), ''Turn to the ...
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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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