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An Epitaph for German Judaism - From Halle to Jerusalem (Hardcover, Restored/Uncut/)
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An Epitaph for German Judaism - From Halle to Jerusalem (Hardcover, Restored/Uncut/)
Series: Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical Studies
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Emil Fackenheim's life work was to call upon the world at large -
and on philosophers, Christians, Jews, and Germans in particular -
to confront the Holocaust as an unprecedented assault on the Jewish
people, Judaism, and all humanity. In this memoir, to which he was
making final revisions at the time of his death, Fackenheim looks
back on his life, at the profound and painful circumstances that
shaped him as a philosopher and a committed Jewish thinker.
Interned for three months in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp
after Kristallnacht, Fackenheim was released and escaped to
Scotland and then to Canada, where he lived in a refugee internment
camp before eventually becoming a congregational rabbi and then,
for thirty-five years, a professor of philosophy. He recalls here
what it meant to be a German Jew in North America, the desperate
need to respond to the crisis in Europe and to cope with its
overwhelming implications for Jewish identity and community. His
second great turning point came in 1967, as he saw Jews threatened
with another Holocaust, this time in Israel. This crisis led him on
a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and ultimately back to Germany, where he
continued to grapple with the question, How can the Jewish faith -
and the Christian faith - exist after the Holocaust?
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