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Book SynopsisArgues that the impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century has affected the future shape of religious thought. This book 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Modernity Surpassed: Jewish Religious Thought after Auschwitz31Theodicy and Its Others: Forms of Religious Response to the Problem of Evil192Anti/Theodicy: In Bible and Midrash353Theodicies: In Modern Jewish Thought604"Hitler's Accomplice"?! Revisioning Richard Rubenstein875Do I Belong to the Race of Words? Anti/Theodic Faith and Textual Revision in the Thought of Eliezer Berkovits1126Why Is the World Today Not Water? Revelation, Fragmentation, and Solidarity in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim134Conclusion: Discourse, Sign, Diptych: Remarks on Jewish Thought after Auschwitz161Notes179Bibliography193Index201
