Title: Open Wounds
Subtitle: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of Auschwitz (Pastora Goldner Series in Post-Holocaust Studies)
Description: "In this book, David Patterson sets out to describe why Jews must live - but especially think - in a way that is distinctly Jewish. For Patterson, the primary responsibility of post-Holocaust Jewish thought is to avoid thinking in the same categories that led to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. The Nazis, he says, were not anti-Semitic because they were racists; they were racists because they were anti-Semitic, and their anti-Semitism was furthered by a Western ontological tradition that made God irrelevant by placing the thinking ego at the center of being."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Judaism, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Doctrines, Holocaust (Jewish theology), Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Influence, Judaism, 20th century, Judaism, doctrines
Time periods: 20th century