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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.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface by Shaul Magid
  • Introduction
  • 1. Covenantal Metahistory
  • Covenantal Theodicy
  • Paradigmatic Thinking
  • 2. Paradigmatic Thinking and the Holocaust
  • Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich
  • Shlomo Zalman Unsdorfer
  • Yissakhar Teichthal
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Paradigmatic Thinking and Post-Holocaust Theology
  • Paradigmatic Thinking and the Rise of Historicism
  • Richard L. Rubenstein
  • Emil L. Fackenheim
  • Eliezer Berkovits
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The End of Metahistory in the Warsaw Ghetto
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography

    History, Metahistory, and Evil: Jewish

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        Publisher: Academic Studies Press
        Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/02/2021
        ISBN13: 9781644694817, 978-1644694817
        ISBN10: 1644694816

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        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.

        Table of Contents
        • Acknowledgements
        • Preface by Shaul Magid
        • Introduction
        • 1. Covenantal Metahistory
        • Covenantal Theodicy
        • Paradigmatic Thinking
        • 2. Paradigmatic Thinking and the Holocaust
        • Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich
        • Shlomo Zalman Unsdorfer
        • Yissakhar Teichthal
        • Conclusion
        • 3. Paradigmatic Thinking and Post-Holocaust Theology
        • Paradigmatic Thinking and the Rise of Historicism
        • Richard L. Rubenstein
        • Emil L. Fackenheim
        • Eliezer Berkovits
        • Conclusion
        • 4. The End of Metahistory in the Warsaw Ghetto
        • Conclusion
        • Bibliography

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