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(God) after Auschwitz : tradition and change in post-Holocaust Jewish thought

The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. The author terms this rejection 'Antitheodicy, ' the refusal to accept that relationship. It finds voice in the writings of three particular theologians: Richard Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, and Emil Fackenheim. This book is the first to bring postmodern philosophical and literary approaches into conversation with post-Holocaust Jewish thought. Drawing on the work of Mieke Bal, Harold Bloom, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, and others, Braiterman assesses how Jewish intellectuals reinterpret Bible and Midrash to re-create religious thought for the age after Auschwitz. In this process, he provides a model for reconstructing Jewish life and philosophy in the wake of the Holocaust. His work contributes to the postmodern turn in contemporary Jewish studies and today's creative theology
eBook, English, ©1998
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1998
1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations
9781400811120, 9780691059419, 9781400822768, 9781282935211, 9786612935213, 1400811120, 0691059411, 1400822769, 1282935216, 6612935219
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Modernity surpassed: Jewish religious thought after Auschwitz
Theodicy and its others: forms of religious response to the problem of evil
Anti/theodicy: in Bible and Midrash
Theodicies: in modern Jewish thought
"Hitler's accomplice"?! Revisioning Richard Rubenstein
Do I belong to the race of words? Anti-theodic faith and textual revision in the thought of Eliezer Berkovits
Why is the world today not water? Revelation, fragmentation, and solidarity in the thought of Emil Fackenheim
Discourse, sign, diptych: remarks on Jewish thought after Auschwitz
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