(God) After Auschwitz
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Absolute (philosophy)
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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Arnold Eisen
Atheism
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Avi Weiss
Bible
Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Job
Bruno Bettelheim
Buber
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Christianity and antisemitism
Deuteronomist
Elie Wiesel
Eliezer Berkovits
Elisha
Emil Fackenheim
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Finkelstein
Franz Rosenzweig
Gershom Scholem
God
God is dead
Good and evil
Haredi Judaism
Hermann Cohen
Hermeneutics
Isaac Luria
Jewish history
Jewish philosophy
Jews
Job (biblical figure)
Judaism
Justification (theology)
Kabbalah
Land of Israel
Leon Uris
Literature
Martin Buber
Midrash
Mitzvah
Modernity
Mysticism
Narrative
Nazism
Omnipotence
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Philosophy
Postmodernism
Primo Levi
Princeton University Press
Problem of evil
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Rabbinic Judaism
Rabbinic literature
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Reform Judaism
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Religious text
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Rosenzweig
Scholem
Soloveitchik
Steven Zipperstein
Theism
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Theology
Thought
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691059419
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 1998
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Zachary Braiterman is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University.
