Wrestling with God Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust,9780195300147

Wrestling with God Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust

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ISBN13: 9780195300147
ISBN10: 0195300149
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-01-04
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This volume presents a wide-ranging selection of Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust. It will be the most complete anthology of its sort, bringing together for the first time: (1) a large sample of ultra-orthodox writings, translated from the Hebrew and Yiddish; (2) a substantial selection of essays by Israeli authors, also translated from the Hebrew; (3) a broad sampling of works written in English by American and European authors. These diverse selections represent virtually every significant theological position that has been articulated by a Jewish thinker in response to the Holocaust. Included are rarely studied responses that were written while the Holocaust was happening.

Table of Contents

General Introduction 3(8)
Steven T. Katz
Part I Ultra-Orthodox Responses during and following the War
Introduction
11(16)
Gershon Greenberg
Within the Catastrophe
27(46)
Elhanan Wasserman
29(10)
Tractate: The Onset of the Messiah
30(9)
Kalonymous Kalman Shapira
39(12)
Holy Fire
40(11)
Shlomoh Zalman Unsdorfer
51(10)
Vayehi: Eve of the Holy Shabbat of the Torah Portion Vayehi [Genesis 47:28--50:26] [Prepared 2 January for 3 January 1942 Delivery]
52(4)
Torah Portion Va'era [Exodus 6:1--9:35] [Prepared 8 January for 9 January 1943 Delivery]
56(2)
[Torah Portion] Re'eh [Deuteronomy 11:26--16:17] [Prepared 27 August for 28 August 1943 Delivery]
58(3)
Shlomoh Zalman Ehrenreich
61(12)
What I Preached on Sunday [of the Week of] the Torah Portion Tetsaveh, 26 February 1939
62(3)
What I Preached on [the Festival of] Simhat Torah, 4 October 1942
65(3)
What I Preached on the Great Shabbat [Preceding Passover], 17 April 1943
68(5)
At the Border of Catastrophe
73(20)
Yissakhar Taykhtahl
75(8)
Second Preface: A Happy Mother of Children
75(8)
Aharon Rokeah
83(10)
Parting Sermon
84(9)
The Land of Israel
93(106)
Reuven Katz
95(15)
Redemption and Rescue of Prisoners, December 1943
96(3)
``The Jews Ordained, and Took It upon Them'' [Esther 9:27], May--June 1944
99(2)
Amalek's Transmigration over the Generations, February-March 1945
101(3)
Torah Portion Behukotai: Israel's Misery and Israel's Redemption [Written Shortly after the War's End]
104(6)
Yitshak Breuer
110(10)
Moriah: Foundations of National Torah Education
111(9)
Mosheh Avigdor Amiel
120(13)
A Treasured Nation: Nationality and Humanity according to Judaism's World View
121(3)
To the Perplexed of the Era: A Chapter of Observation about the Essence of Judaism (1943)
124(9)
Yehezkel Sarna
133(13)
Toward Penitent Return and Restoration
134(12)
Ya'akov Mosheh Harlap
146(11)
Waters Sublime: From the Sources of Salvation
147(4)
Letter to Braukh Yehiel Duvdevani in Saint Cesarea, Italy, DP Camp, 3 October 1946 [Two Days before Yom Kippur]
151(1)
Towards the Era of Love [December 1947--January 1948, Sinai]
152(5)
Hayim Yisrael Tsimerman
157(14)
``His Work Is Perfect'': The Loftiness of God and His Righteousness
158(13)
Teshuvah and the Suffering of the Pious
Yosef Yitshak Schneersohn
171(20)
First Proclamation: 26 May 1941
172(3)
Second Proclamation: 11 June 1941
175(4)
Third Proclamation: 8 July 1941
179(2)
Fourth Proclamation: 11 September 1941
181(4)
Let Our Master Teach Us: 11 September 1942
185(2)
Let Our Master Teach Us: 29 October 1943
187(4)
Simhah Elberg
191(8)
The Akedah of Treblinka
192(7)
Bibliography
199(6)
PART II Israeli Responses during and following the War
Introduction
205(146)
Shlomo Biderman
Eliezer Schweid
217(27)
Is the Shoah a Unique Event?
219(10)
Does the Idea of Jewish Election Have Any Meaning after the Holocaust?
229(15)
Pinchas Peli
244(19)
Borderline: Searching for a Religious Language of the Shoah
245(18)
Yoel Schwartz and Yitzchak Goldstein
263(11)
The Shoah: From a Torah Perspective
264(10)
Alexander Donat
274(13)
Voice from the Ashes: Wanderings in Search of God
275(12)
Moshe Unna
287(6)
Who Can Heal You?
288(5)
Yehuda Bauer
293(4)
Returning to the Source of Human Morality
294(3)
Natan Alterman
297(7)
Two Roads: Remarks from a Notebook
298(6)
Yehoyada Amir
304(14)
The Concept of Exile as a Model for Dealing with the Holocaust
305(13)
Yosef Achituv
318(8)
Theology and the Holocaust
319(7)
Warren Zev Harvey
326(6)
Two Jewish Approaches to Evil in History
327(5)
Shalom Rosenberg
332(19)
The Holocaust: Lessons, Explanation, Meaning
333(18)
Bibliography
351(4)
PART III European and American Responses during and following the War
Introduction
355(330)
Steven T. Katz
Martin Buber
371(5)
Dialogue between Heaven and Earth
372(2)
A Response to a Letter from Ernsz Szilagyi, June 29, 1950
374(2)
Abraham Joshua Heschel
376(5)
The Hiding God
378(3)
Joseph B. Soloveitchik
381(13)
Kol Dodi Dofek: The Voice of My Beloved Knocks
382(12)
Zvi Kolitz
394(7)
Yossel Rakover Talks to God
395(6)
Ignaz Maybaum
401(8)
The Face of God after Auschwitz
402(7)
Richard Lowell Rubenstein
409(10)
The Dean and the Chosen People
410(5)
Symposium on Jewish Belief
415(1)
The Symbols of Judaism and the Death of God
416(3)
Emil Fackenheim
419(31)
The Structure of Jewish Experience
420(12)
The 614th Commandment
432(2)
The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz
434(5)
Israel and the Diaspora: Political Contingencies and Moral Necessities; or, The Shofar of Rabbi Yitzhak Finkler of Piotrkov
439(7)
Historicity, Rupture, and Tikkun Olam (Mending the World)
446(4)
Emmanuel Levinas
450(5)
Useless Suffering
451(4)
Michael Wyschogrod
455(7)
Faith and the Holocaust
456(6)
Eliezer Berkovits
462(28)
Faith after the Holocaust
463(22)
Crisis and Faith
485(5)
Robert Gordis
490(7)
A Cruel God or None: Is There No Other Choice?
491(6)
Irving (Yitzchak) Greenberg
497(59)
Cloud of Smoke, Pillar of Fire: Judaism, Christianity, and Modernity after the Holocaust
499(24)
The Third Great Cycle of Jewish History
523(20)
Voluntary Covenant
543(13)
Isaac Hutner
556(9)
Holocaust
557(8)
Arthur A. Cohen
565(16)
The Tremendum
566(15)
Steven T. Katz
581(46)
Richard Rubenstein, the God of History, and the Logic of Judaism
582(12)
The Crucifixion of the Jews: Ignaz Maybaum's Theology of the Holocaust
594(7)
Eliezer Berkovits's Post-Holocaust Jewish Theodicy
601(8)
``Voluntary Covenant'': Irving Greenberg on Faith after the Holocaust
609(4)
``The Tremendum'': Arthur Cohen's Understanding of Faith after the Holocaust
613(14)
Hans Jonas
627(10)
The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice
628(9)
Amos Funkenstein
637(11)
Theological Interpretations of the Holocaust
639(9)
Melissa Raphael
648(15)
The Female Face of God in Auschwitz
649(14)
Jonathan Sacks
663(18)
The Holocaust in Jewish Theology
664(10)
The Valley of the Shadow
674(7)
Elie Wiesel
681(4)
God's Suffering: A Commentary
682(3)
Bibliography
685

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