Title: Why should Jews survive?
First published: 1995
Description: In this provocative book, Goldberg launches a bold attack on what he calls the "Holocaust cult," challenging Jews to return to a deeper, richer sense of purpose. He argues that this cult - with shrines like the U.S. Holocaust Museum, high priests such as Elie Wiesel, and rites like UJA death camp pilgrimages - is deeply destructive of Jewish identity.

As the current "master story" of Judaism, Goldberg writes, the Holocaust has been used to depict Jews as uniquely victimized in human history - transforming them from God's chosen to those who manage to survive despite God's silent complicity in their persecution. Jews need positive reasons for remaining Jewish, he argues; they need to return to the Exodus as their master story - the story of God leading the Jews out of slavery and making with them an eternal covenant that gave the Jews a unique place in God's plan.

The Jews should survive, Goldberg concludes, because they are the linchpin in God's redemption of the world.
Subjects: Exodus, The, History of doctrines, Holocaust (Jewish theology), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Identity, Influence, Jews, Judaism, The Exodus, Jews, identity, Judaism, 20th century, Jüdische Theologie, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Theology, RELIGION, Judenvernichtung, Identität
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: DS143 .G573 1995