Judaism After the Holocaust
A quarter of a century ago, the leading Jewish theological journal, Judaism, published a symposium under the title, "Jewish Values in the Post-Holocaust Future." One of the participants was Emil Fackenheim, at the time a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. His contributio...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1993
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Toronto journal of theology
Year: 1993, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-220 |
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| Summary: | A quarter of a century ago, the leading Jewish theological journal, Judaism, published a symposium under the title, "Jewish Values in the Post-Holocaust Future." One of the participants was Emil Fackenheim, at the time a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. His contribution to the symposium is best remembered for the startling assertion that Auschwitz, in all its horror and tragedy, has, almost like a second Sinai, given the Jewish people an additional commandment — sometimes called the eleventh, after the biblical ten; sometimes the 614th, after the rabbinic 613 — to survive, and thus deprive Hitler of a posthumous victory. The Nazis wanted to exterminate the Jewish people; by its continued existence despite the tragedy, the Jewish people defeats their monstrous purpose. Jewish survival thus becomes, in the thought of Emil Fackenheim, a category in Jewish theology: The existence of Jews determines the nature of Judaism. |
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| ISSN: | 1918-6371 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Toronto journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/tjt.9.2.211 |
