Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
35,3-4 (1998) 483-495
Keywords:
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish philosophy 1500-
;
Judaism Relations 1500-
;
Christianity
Abstract:
Mainstream Orthodox Jewish thinkers of the Holocaust period (represented by adherents of Mizrahi or Agudath Israel, hasidic and Musar thinkers, and kabbalists) presumed an ontic-level dualism between the sacred world of Israel and the profane world outside, including Christianity. There were some exceptional thinkers (e.g. Eliahu Botschko, Gedaliah Bublick, Yehudah Leb Gerst, Simha Elberg) who paired Judaism and Christianity against paganism and the anti-religious universe. Many other wartime Jewish thinkers shared the meaning given to tragedy by Christianity in terms of vicarious suffering, the suffering of God, and physical mortification in the name of spiritual sanctity.
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