History, Metahistory, and Evil (eBook)

Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust

Barbara Krawcowicz (Autor)

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2021
242 Seiten
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
9781644694824 (ISBN)

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Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes. But most traditional Jewish thinkers during the war saw no such overwhelming of tradition in the death and suffering delivered to Jews by Nazis. Through a comparative reading of postwar North American and wartime Orthodox Jewish texts about the Holocaust, Barbara Krawcowicz shows that these sources differ in the paradigms-modern and historicist for North American thinkers, traditional and covenantal for Orthodox thinkers-in which they emplot historical events.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.1.2021
• Reihe/Serie: New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: 1900s • Antisemitism • Auschwitz • Belief • Comparative Religion • Eliezer Berkovits • Emil L Fackenheim • Genocide • God • History • Holocaust • Jewish Theology • Judaism • Kalonymus Kalman Shapira • Orthodoxy • Philosophy • Rabbis • religious scholars • Richard L Rubenstein • Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich • Shlomo Zalman Unsdorfer • Shoah • Theodicy • Tragedy • World War II • Yissakhar Teichthal
• ISBN-13: 9781644694824 / 9781644694824