Rethinking Jewish faith
Subtitle: the child of a survivor responds
By: Steven L. Jacobs.
Series: SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Judaism -- 20th century.; Holocaust (Jewish theology); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.; Children of Holocaust survivors -- Religious life.
Description: This book addresses the faith of a member of the "Second Generation" - the offspring of the original survivors of the Shoah. It is a re-examination of those categories of faith central to the Jewish Religious Experience in light of the Shoah: God, Covenant, Prayer, Halakhah and Mitzvot, Life-Cycle, Festival Cycle, Israel and Zionism, and Christianity from the perspective of a child of a survivor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-139).