Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
European Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
27,1 (1994) 36-49
Keywords:
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Reflects on the meaning of the Auschwitz memory in the post-1967 Jewish mind. Regrets that many Jews use the Holocaust not as a key to understand and sympathize with other persecuted and suffering peoples, but in order to claim Jewish uniqueness and the right to establish the Jewish state at the expense of the Palestinians. Compares Jewish sufferings in the Christian world to the sufferings inflicted by the European empires on the non-European (Christian and pagan) peoples in the epoch after Columbus's voyages. Contends that the Jews must abandon their sense of innocence and of redemption through Israel; similarly, the Christians must abandon their theological triumphalism of the post-1492 era. Pp. 49-51 contain an afterword, written a year later, following the Israeli-Palestinian agreement.
Note:
Appeared also in "What Kind of God? Essays in Honor of Richard L. Rubenstein", 1995.
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