ISBN:
9781644694824
,
9781644694831
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (250 Seiten)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
New perspectives in post-rabbinic Judaism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Krawcowicz, Barbara, 1976 - History, metahistory, and evil
Keywords:
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Orthodox Judaism
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
HISTORY / Holocaust
;
Nordamerika
;
Jüdische Theologie
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Judenvernichtung
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Covenantal Metahistory -- 2. Paradigmatic Thinking and the Holocaust -- 3. Paradigmatic Thinking and Post-Holocaust Theology -- 4. The End of Metahistory in the Warsaw Ghetto -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract:
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 employ historical events
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781644694824
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