ISBN:
9781644694817
Language:
English
Pages:
xxxiv, 206 Seiten
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
New perspectives in post-rabbinic judaism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Jüdische Theologie
;
Nordamerika
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Orthodox Judaism
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Orthodox Judaism
;
Nordamerika
;
Jüdische Theologie
;
Jüdische Philosophie
;
Judenvernichtung
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"--
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