Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
28,2 (1991) 223-238
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Judaism Relations 1945-
;
Christianity
;
Arab-Israeli conflict Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and politics
Abstract:
An earlier version was presented as a lecture at Kenyon College on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 1990. The theological wound inflicted upon tradition by the Holocaust has sought healing in a Zionist political ethos, but this consensus of Jewish and Christian Holocaust theologians has recently shown signs of disintegration. Attempts to develop an interpretive perspective that does justice to two constellations of intertwined experience - that of the Jewish people and that of the Palestinian people. Discusses the ritualized Holocaust discourse of Jews and Christians which precludes the development of other relationships and discourses which might emerge from reflection upon the Holocaust. Examines the "myth of the victim-community" which underlies the rhetoric of Jews, Christians, and Palestinians. Since Jews and Palestinians are locked in their mythic-political predicament, calls on Christians to develop a standpoint that will do justice to both. The Christian speaks out of his own myth of victimization - that of his God victimized in the body of a Jew - and of his Church's exercise of victimizing others throughout the centuries. He must condemn Jew-hatred and its consequences (including present-day antisemitism in the Islamic world) as well as the Jewish treatment of Palestinians, to spare each community from the implacable hatred of its enemy.
Description / Table of Contents:
Fisher, Eugene J.. Response to M.S. Jaffee. Ibid. 28,4: 631-633.
Description / Table of Contents:
Jaffee, Martin S.. Response to Eugene J. Fisher. Ibid. 29,1 (1992) 96-99.
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