Beyond Auschwitz Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America

Name: Beyond Auschwitz Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America
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ISBN: 9780195148626

ISBN-10: 0195148622

ISBN-13: 9780195148626

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael L. Morgan

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This book offers the first comprehensive overview of Post-Holocaust Jewish theology, quoting extensively from and interpreting all of the significant American writings of the movement. Morgan's lucid analysis clarifies the background of the movement in the postwar period, its origins, its character, and its legacy for subsequent thinking, theological and otherwise. Among the authors whose work he considers are Hannah Arendt, Richard Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkowitz, Irving Greenberg, Arthur Cohen, Emil Fackenheim, Eli Wiesel and many others. Ultimately, Morgan's primary purpose is to tell the story of the movement, to illuminate its real, deep point, and to demonstrate its continuing relevance…

Book details

List price: $98.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.924

MICHAEL L. MORGAN is Professor in the Philosophy and Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is the author of Platonic Piety: Philosophy and Ritual in Fourth Century Athens and editor of The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim and Classics of Moral and Political Theory.



Preface


Introduction



The Holocaust and the Intellectuals of the Fifties and Sixties



Responses to Auschwitz and the Literary Imagination



Jewish Theology in Postwar America



The Early Stage: the Sixties



The Six Day War and American Jewish Life



Richard Rubenstein and the New Paganism



Eliezer Berkovits and the Tenacity of Faith



Irving Greenberg and the Post-Holocaust Voluntary Covenant



Arthur Cohen and the Holocaust as Tremendum



Emil Fackenheim: Fidelity and Recovery in the Post-Holocaust Epoch



The Reception of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought



Postmodernism, Tradition, Memory: the Contemporary Legacy of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Subject Index


Name Index