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Rethinking Jewish faith : the child of a survivor responds / Steven L. Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, Steven L., 1947-
- Series:
- SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
- SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judaism--20th century.
- Judaism.
- Holocaust (Jewish theology).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Children of Holocaust survivors--Religious life.
- Children of Holocaust survivors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book addresses the faith of a member of the "Second Generation"-the offspring of the original survivors of the Shoah. It is a re-examination of those categories of faith central to the Jewish Religious Experience in light of the Shoah: God, Covenant, Prayer, Halakhah and Mitzvot, Life-Cycle, Festival Cycle, Israel and Zionism, and Christianity from the perspective of a child of a survivor.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: Why? The Genesis of My Own Thinking
- Content
- The Problem with God
- Covenant: Involuntary? Voluntary? Nonexistent?
- The Crises of Prayer
- Halakhah and Mitzvot: Law and Commandments-The Heart of the Matter
- Rethinking the Jewish Life Cycle: From Birth to Death
- Rethinking the Jewish Festival Cycle: The Calendar in Question
- Israel and Zionism in the Post-Shoah World
- Rethinking Christianity: An Outsider's Perspective
- Summarizing: Is Such Even Possible?
- Back Matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix I: "[If] There Is No 'Commander?.. There Are No 'Commandments'!
- Appendix II: Rethinking Jewish [and Christian?] Faith in Light of the Holocaust: The Response of the Child of a Survivor
- Notes and Bibliography
- Glossary
- About the Author
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-139).
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-0771-8
- 0-585-03206-8
- OCLC:
- 42854465
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