Wrestling with the angel: toward a Jewish understanding of the Nazi assault on the name

Shows that the Nazis undertook an assault on God, who in the Jewish tradition is known as the Name and that this assault has implications for Jewish thinking about Jewish identity in the post-Holocaust era. Examines the tradition of philosophical antisemitism that led to the Holocaust, how that Jew hatred manifested itself during the Holocaust as an assault on God and Israel, and what the Jewish people can do in the aftermath of the Holocaust