Beyond Auschwitz - Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America

Zusatztext This single volume, produced by an authority in the field, providing access to five seminal thinkers' ideas on identity, memory, and tradition, is welcome. Klappentext To this day Jewish thinkers struggle to articulate the appropriate response to the unprecedented catastrophe of the Holocaust. Here! Morgan 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. 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 today. Zusammenfassung 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 today.

Product details

• Authors: Michael L. Morgan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2001
• EAN: 9780195148626
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514862-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Europe, European History, RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Military / United States, RELIGION / Essays, HISTORY / Essays, RELIGION / Judaism / Theology, Theology, General & world history, Second World War, The Holocaust, Judaism, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Literary essays, General and world history, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater