Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Midstream
Angaben zur Quelle:
42,3 (1996) 6-9
Keywords:
Buber, Martin,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Objects to the view of Richard Rubenstein and other scholars who contend that Buber failed to make the Holocaust his central theological concern in his postwar thought and writings, because his views were ahistorical and because he did not view God as Actor in any concrete set of historical events. As a man deeply attached to German culture, Buber could not believe the Nazi atrocities against the Jews in the early 1940s; however, in his last essay, "The Dialogue between Heaven and Earth, " Buber did respond to the Holocaust. He did not engage in theodicy, but rather in the appearance of God and intimacy again, after all that has happened: "Nothing is explained, nothing adjusted... except that man again hears God's address."
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