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An Epitaph for German Judaism: From Halle to Jerusalem de Emil Fackenheim

An Epitaph for German Judaism: From Halle to Jerusalem: Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical Studies

Autor Emil Fackenheim Cuvânt înainte de Michael Morgan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 oct 2007
     Emil Fackenheim’s life work was to call upon the world at large—and on philosophers, Christians, Jews, and Germans in particular—to confront the Holocaust as an unprecedented assault on the Jewish people, Judaism, and all humanity. In this memoir, to which he was making final revisions at the time of his death, Fackenheim looks back on his life, at the profound and painful circumstances that shaped him as a philosopher and a committed Jewish thinker.
     Interned for three months in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after Kristallnacht, Fackenheim was released and escaped to Scotland and then to Canada, where he lived in a refugee internment camp before eventually becoming a congregational rabbi and then, for thirty-five years, a professor of philosophy. He recalls here what it meant to be a German Jew in North America, the desperate need to respond to the crisis in Europe and to cope with its overwhelming implications for Jewish identity and community. His second great turning point came in 1967, as he saw Jews threatened with another Holocaust, this time in Israel. This crisis led him on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and ultimately back to Germany, where he continued to grapple with the question, How can the Jewish faith—and the Christian faith—exist after the Holocaust?


“An ‘epoch-making’ autobiography.”—Arnold Ages, Jewish Tribune
 
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ISBN-13: 9780299175900
ISBN-10: 0299175901
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical Studies

Recenzii

“An illuminating and affecting memoir by a seminal Jewish thinker of the twentieth century.”—Raul Hilberg, author of The Destruction of the European Jews

“Written in a compelling conversational voice, Fackenheim’s memoir tells the story of the making of a Jewish philosopher, of a Jewish thinker, tutored by Hegel’s dictum that philosophy is the strenuous ‘labor of thought’ that does justice to reality—for Jews a reality lacerated by the horrors of the Holocaust and yet bearing premonitions of redemption as heralded by the birth of the State of Israel.”—Paul Mendes-Flohr, University of Chicago

"[Fackenheim's] influence on present-day Jewish thought has been profound, and these memoirs show why. They will be indispensable both to those who seek to understand aspects of German Jewish history under the impact of Nazism, and to those who will seek to understand the impact of the Shoah on Jewish and Christian thought.”—Yehuda Bauer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Notă biografică

Emil Fackenheim (1916–2003) was a rabbi and professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His many books include The Religious Dimension in Hegel’s Thought, God’s Presence in History, To Mend the World, and What Is Judaism?

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     Emil Fackenheim’s life work was to call upon the world at large—and on philosophers, Christians, Jews, and Germans in particular—to confront the Holocaust as an unprecedented assault on the Jewish people, Judaism, and all humanity. In this memoir, to which he was making final revisions at the time of his death, Fackenheim looks back on his life, at the profound and painful circumstances that shaped him as a philosopher and a committed Jewish thinker.
     Interned for three months in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after Kristallnacht, Fackenheim was released and escaped to Scotland and then to Canada, where he lived in a refugee internment camp before eventually becoming a congregational rabbi and then, for thirty-five years, a professor of philosophy. He recalls here what it meant to be a German Jew in North America, the desperate need to respond to the crisis in Europe and to cope with its overwhelming implications for Jewish identity and community. His second great turning point came in 1967, as he saw Jews threatened with another Holocaust, this time in Israel. This crisis led him on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and ultimately back to Germany, where he continued to grapple with the question, How can the Jewish faith—and the Christian faith—exist after the Holocaust?



“An ‘epoch-making’ autobiography.”—Arnold Ages,
Jewish Tribune