David Patterson

Open Wounds

The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Describes why Jews must live - but especially think - in a way that is distinctly Jewish. This book aims to make possible a religious response to the Holocaust.

Produktdetails

• Open Wounds
• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780295986456
• ISBN-10: 029598645X
• Artikelnr.: 21696901

Autorenporträt

David Patterson holds the Bornblum Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies and is director of the Bornblum Judaic Studies Program at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary, winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Open Wounds of Jewish Thought
2. The Bankruptcy of Modern and Postmodern Thought
3. Ethical Monotheism and Jewish Thought
4. The Holocaust and the Holy Tongue
5. The Sifrei Kodesh and the Holocaust
6. The Muselmann and the Matter of the Human Being
7. Jewish Thought and a Post-Holocaust Tikkun Haolam
8. Mystical Dimensions of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought
9. Though the Messiah May Tarry
10. Conclusion: No Closure
Notes
Bibliography
Index