Why should Jews survive? : looking past the Holocaust toward a Jewish future / Michael Goldberg.
In this provocative book, Goldberg launches a bold attack on what he calls the "Holocaust cult," challenging Jews to return to a deeper, richer sense of purpose. He argues that this cult - with shrines like the U.S. Holocaust Museum, high priests such as Elie Wiesel, and rites like UJA dea...
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| Hauptverfasser: | Goldberg, Michael |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 1995. |
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| Internet: | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=007104266&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| Zusammenfassung: | In this provocative book, Goldberg launches a bold attack on what he calls the "Holocaust cult," challenging Jews to return to a deeper, richer sense of purpose. He argues that this cult - with shrines like the U.S. Holocaust Museum, high priests such as Elie Wiesel, and rites like UJA death camp pilgrimages - is deeply destructive of Jewish identity. As the current "master story" of Judaism, Goldberg writes, the Holocaust has been used to depict Jews as uniquely victimized in human history - transforming them from God's chosen to those who manage to survive despite God's silent complicity in their persecution Jews need positive reasons for remaining Jewish, he argues; they need to return to the Exodus as their master story - the story of God leading the Jews out of slavery and making with them an eternal covenant that gave the Jews a unique place in God's plan. The Jews should survive, Goldberg concludes, because they are the linchpin in God's redemption of the world |
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| Beschreibung: | IX, 191 S. |
| ISBN: | 0195091094 |
