Wrestling With the Angel
Subtitle: Toward a Jewish Understanding of the Nazi Assault on the Name
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Published: April 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781557788450
Subjects: Jewish Studies; Judaism; World history: Second World War; Name; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Religion; History - General History; Judaism - General; Psychology of Religion; Names, Personal; Holocaust; God (Judaism); Psychological aspects
Description: "This book shows that, proceeding from philosophical precedents, the Nazis undertook an assault on God, who in the Jewish tradition is known as the Name and that this assault has implications for Jewish thinking about Jewish identity in the post-Holocaust era. It shows that in the assault on the Name, there is an assault on the name - that is, on the very identity - of the Jews. The book examines the tradition of philosophical anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust, how that Jew hatred manifested itself during the Holocaust as an assault on God and Israel, and what the Jewish people can do in the aftermath of the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.