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Author: David Patterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-26
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1107011043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon Jewish categories of thought, this book suggests a way of thinking that might help prevent genocide.
Author: David Patterson
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781139233729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the topics explored in this book are ways of viewing the soul, the relation between body and soul, environmentalist thought, the phenomenon of torture, and the philosophical and theological warrants for genocide. Presenting an analysis of abstract modes of thought that have contributed to genocide, the book argues that a Jewish model of concrete thinking may inform our understanding of the abstractions that can lead to genocide. Its aim is to draw upon distinctively Jewish categories of thought to demonstrate how the conceptual defacing of the other human being serves to promote the murder of peoples, and to suggest a way of thinking that might help prevent genocide.
Author: Michael L. Morgan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0791478297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmil Fackenheim (1916–2003), one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century, called on the world at large not only to bear witness to the Holocaust as an unprecedented assault on Judaism and on humanity, but also to recognize that the question of what it means to philosophize—indeed, what it means to be human—must be raised anew in its wake. The Philosopher as Witness begins with two recent essays written by Fackenheim himself and includes responses to the questions that Fackenheim posed to philosophy, Judaism, and humanity after the Holocaust. The contributors to this book dare to extend that questioning through a critical examination of Fackenheim's own thought and through an exploration of some of the ramifications of his work for fields of study and realms of religious life that transcend his own.
Author: Yehuda Bauer
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 3643905017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"For the last fifty years I have been studying the genocide of the Jews, which we call the Holocaust. For the last thirty years I have been studying antisemitism, and for the last fifteen years genocide generally, and ways to prevent it. That is the prism through which I view Jewish history, past and present - I prefer to look at it from a contemporary point of view. That is also the way I view human history in general. It is quite possible that this view from the present to the past is decisively influenced by the fact that my professional life is determined by the most tragic and serious issues that any historian, and most certainly a Jewish one, can deal with: the Holocaust, antisemitism, and genocide." -- Yehuda Bauer (Series: LIT Premium) [Subject: Sociology, Jewish Studies, History]
Author: Steven L. Jacobs
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1438407718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Arthur Allen Cohen
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A profound and important book... the best book on the Holocaust interpreted by a theologian of Judaism". -- Jacob Neusner
Author: Bruce Zuckerman
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1557535345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Jewish Role in American Life examines the complex relationship between Jews and the United States. Jews have been instrumental in shaping American culture and Jewish culture and religion have likewise been profoundly recast in the United States, especially in the period following World War II.
Author: Steven T. Katz
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1992-02
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0814746160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[Of] the 12 well-crafted essays in this volume...the most useful are those dealing with the Holocaust." —Choice "Especially recommended for college-level students of Jewish history and culture." —The Bookwatch This is a critical exploration of the most repercussive topics in modern Jewish history and thought. A sequel to Katz's National Jewish Book Award-winning study, Post-Holocaust Dialogues, this book identifies the main issues in the contemporary Jewish intellectual universe and outlines a larger, more synthetic understanding of contemporary Jewish existence.
Author: Steven Leonard Jacobs
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009-05-16
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0739135902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConfronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam is the first collection of essays by recognized scholars primarily in the field of religious studies to address this timely topic. In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan from their own unique vantage point. In so doing, they supply a much needed additional contribution to the ongoing conversations proffered by historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and legal scholars regarding prevention, intervention, and punishment.
Author: Jonathan Sacks
Publisher: Maggid
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781592640218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this second volume of his long-anticipated five-volume collection of parashat hashavua commentaries, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks explores these intersections as they relate to universal concerns of freedom, love, responsibility, identity, and destiny. Chief Rabbi Sacks fuses Jewish tradition, Western philosophy, and literature to present a highly developed understanding of the human condition under Gods sovereignty. Erudite and eloquent, Covenant Conversation allows us to experience Chief Rabbi Sacks sophisticated approach to life lived in an ongoing dialogue with the Torah.
