History, metahistory, and evil : Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust / Barbara Krawcowicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krawcowicz, Barbara, 1976- author.

Series:

New perspectives in post-Rabbinic Judaism.

New perspectives in post-rabbinic judaism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust (Jewish theology).

Orthodox Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, [2020]

Summary:

Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes. But most traditional Jewish thinkers during the war saw no such overwhelming of tradition in the death and suffering delivered to Jews by Nazis. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1. Covenantal Metahistory

2. Paradigmatic Thinking and the Holocaust

3. Paradigmatic Thinking and Post-Holocaust Theology

4. The End of Metahistory in the Warsaw Ghetto

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64469-483-2

1-64469-482-4