Authors: Steven Katz
ISBN-13: 9780814748060, ISBN-10: 0814748066
Format: Paperback
Publisher: New York University Press
Date Published: June 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Steven T. Katz is professor of Jewish studies and director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. Among his publications are Post-Holocaust Dialogues: Historicism, the Holocaust and Zionism. He was awarded the Lucas Prize by the University of Tübingen in 1999.
The theological problems facing those trying to respond to the Holocaust remain monumental. Both Jewish and Christian post-Auschwitz religious thought must grapple with profound questions, from how God allowed it to happen to the nature of evil.
The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology brings together a distinguished international array of senior scholarsmany of whose work is available here in English for the first timeto consider key topics from the meaning of divine providence to questions of redemption to the link between the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel. Together, they push our thinking further about how our belief in God has changed in the wake of the Holocaust.
Contributors: Yosef Achituv, Yehoyada Amir, Ester Farbstein, Gershon Greenberg, Warren Zev Harvey, Tova Ilan, Shmuel Jakobovits, Dan Michman, David Novak, Shalom Ratzabi, Michael Rosenak, Shalom Rosenberg, Eliezer Schweid, and Joseph A. Turner.
Editor's introduction | 1 | |
1 | Is there a religious meaning to the idea of a chosen people after the Shoah? | 5 |
2 | The issue of confirmation and disconfirmation in Jewish thought after the Shoah | 13 |
3 | Philosophical and midrashic thinking on the fateful events of Jewish history | 61 |
4 | The Holocaust : lessons, explanation, meaning | 82 |
5 | Between Holocaust and redemption : silence, cognition, and eclipse | 110 |
6 | Ultra-orthodox Jewish thought about the Holocaust since World War II : the radicalized aspect | 132 |
7 | Theological reflections on the Holocaust : between unity and controversy | 161 |
8 | Building amidst devastation : Halakic historical observations on marriage during the Holocaust | 175 |
9 | Two Jewish approaches to evil in history | 194 |
10 | A call to humility and Jewish unity in the aftermath of the Holocaust | 202 |
11 | Is there a religious meaning to the rebirth of the state of Israel after the Shoah? | 211 |
12 | The concept of exile as a model for dealing with the Holocaust | 226 |
13 | Is there a theological connection between the Holocaust and the reestablishment of the state of Israel? | 248 |
14 | The Holocaust and the state of Israel : a historical view of their impact on and meaning for the understanding of the behavior of Jewish religious movements | 263 |
15 | Theology and the Holocaust : the presence of God and diving providence in history from the perspective of the Holocaust | 275 |
16 | Educational implications of Holocaust and rebirth | 287 |