An Epitaph for German Judaism: From Halle to Jerusalem, Emil Fackenheim (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007) xxxiv + 327 pp., 39.95
Thanks to the valiant efforts of his friend and disciple Michael Morgan—the most gifted of his students—Emil Fackenheim's autobiography has been published at last four years after his death. Fackenheim clearly ranks as one of the world's preeminent post-Holocaust theologians; he spent his...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 290-292 |
| Review of: | An epitaph for German Judaism (Madison, Wis. [u.a.] : University of Wisconsin Press, 2007) (Berenbaum, Michael)
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| Summary: | Thanks to the valiant efforts of his friend and disciple Michael Morgan—the most gifted of his students—Emil Fackenheim's autobiography has been published at last four years after his death. Fackenheim clearly ranks as one of the world's preeminent post-Holocaust theologians; he spent his last thirty-five years wrestling with the challenge that the radical evil of the Holocaust poses to faith in humanity as well as to faith in God., Fackenheim represented his own life as a series of journeys, each one significant in its own right, each different, and each formative. Born in 1916, he was still a teenager when Hitler came to power. Those who knew Fackenheim will not be surprised to learn of his diligence as a student or his pursuit of philosophy and his mastery of German literature. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp021 |