Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America - Hardcover

Morgan, Michael L.

9780195145892: Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195145895 ISBN 13: 9780195145892

Publisher: OUP USA, 2001

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.

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This single volume, produced by an authority in the field, providing access to five seminal thinkers' ideas on identity, memory, and tradition, is welcome. (History: Reviews of New Books)

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