H7: Responses to Holocaust

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Further reading

PERSONAL: Night, Elie Wiesel; If this is a man, Primo Levi

FAITH: Faith after the Holocaust, Eliezer Berkovits;
With God in Hell, Eliezer Berkovits.

HALACHA: The Holocaust and Halacha, Irving J. Rosenbaum; Rabbinic Responsa in the Holocaust Era, Robert Kirschner

COVENANT: To Mend the World, Emil Fackenheim; The Jewish Return to History, Emil Fackenheim; Aushcwitz: Beginning of a new Era? Irving Greenberg; Voluntary Covenant, Irving Greenberg; After Auschwitz, Richard L. Rubinstein.

And Finally...

Unsatisfied? You always will be. Any study of such a topic might be thorough, but it cannot be conclusive. A greater understanding will help us to live with the Holocaust, but it might never remove us from under its shadow.

Sources

The valley of the shadow, Ch.2 of 'Crisis and covenant: Jewish thought after the Holocaust', Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks; The Holocaust in Jewish Theology, Ch.8 of 'Tradition in an untraditional age: Essays on Modern Jewish Thought', Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks.

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