History, Metahistory, and Evil : : Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust / / Barbara Krawcowicz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Krawcowicz, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. Covenantal Metahistory --; 2. Paradigmatic Thinking and the Holocaust --; 3. Paradigmatic Thinking and Post-Holocaust Theology --; 4. The End of Metahistory in the Warsaw Ghetto --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644694824; 9783110688207; 9783110696295; 9783110696301
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644694824?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Barbara Krawcowicz.

Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes. But most traditional Jewish thinkers during the war saw no such overwhelming of tradition in the death and suffering delivered to Jews by Nazis. Through a comparative reading of postwar North American and wartime Orthodox Jewish texts about the Holocaust, Barbara Krawcowicz shows that these sources differ in the paradigms—modern and historicist for North American thinkers, traditional and covenantal for Orthodox thinkers—in which they employ historical events.