After Auschwitz: History, theology, and contemporary Judaism
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]After Auschwitz: History, theology, and contemporary Judaism
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
[nb-NO]Edition[nb-NO]2nd
Call number296.3/0004
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]01048
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Baltimore, Maryland, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]John Hopkins University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
1992
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]358p.,index,bibliographical references
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]John Hopkins University Studies
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]0801842859
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Argues that Jews(and Christians) who accept the traditional belief that G-d has chosen Israel and acts providentially in history must either interpret the Holocaust as divine punishment or as the most radical challenge ever to traditional belief. Unable to defend traditional faith, Rubenstein turned to psychoanalysis, sociology, and history to defend religious institutions and ritual