History, Metahistory, and Evil - Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust

Through a comparative reading of postwar North American and wartime Orthodox Jewish texts about the Holocaust, Krawcowicz offers a novel interpretation of Jewish responses to the Holocaust that focuses on the role of metahistorical paradigms employed to employ historical events.

List of contents

Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface by Shaul Magid
Introduction
1. Covenantal Metahistory
Covenantal Theodicy
Paradigmatic Thinking
2. Paradigmatic Thinking and the Holocaust
Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich
Shlomo Zalman Unsdorfer
Yissakhar Teichthal
Conclusion
3. Paradigmatic Thinking and Post-Holocaust Theology
Paradigmatic Thinking and the Rise of Historicism
Richard L. Rubenstein
Emil L. Fackenheim
Eliezer Berkovits
Conclusion
4. The End of Metahistory in the Warsaw Ghetto
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Barbara Krawcowicz is Assistant Professor in the Institute for the Study of Religion at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Summary

Through a comparative reading of postwar North American and wartime Orthodox Jewish texts about the Holocaust, Barbara Krawcowicz shows that these sources differ in the paradigms - modern and historicist for North American thinkers, traditional and covenantal for Orthodox thinkers - in which they employ historical events.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Krawcowicz
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781644694817
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-481-7
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 518 g
• Series: New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism; New Perspectives in Post-Rabbi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; comparative religion, Theology, Judaism: life and practice