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Why Should Jews Survive? - Looking Past the Holocaust Toward a Jewish Future (Paperback, Reissue)
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Why Should Jews Survive? - Looking Past the Holocaust Toward a Jewish Future (Paperback, Reissue)
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In the fifty years since the Holocaust, the Jewish People have felt
one overriding concern: survival. The ghosts of the murdered six
million, along with the living generation of survivors, have called
out the unifying chant, "never again." In 1948, this concern found
a second focus in the state of Israel, the ultimate refuge of Jews
worldwide. But Rabbi Michael Goldberg finds that these twin pillars
of Jewish identity are brittle, and have already begun to crumble;
they will not be enough to support or sustain the next generation.
The time has come to answer the question: Why should Jews
survive?
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. This Holocaust-centered,
survival-for-survival's-sake Judaism is already showing its
emptiness, Goldberg contends; the generation that survived Hitler
and founded Israel is dying, and the new generation seems adrift
(for instance, one recent survey predicts that 70% of American
Jewish marriages will be intermarriages by the turn of the
century). 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.
Rabbi Michael Goldberg has long wrestled with the crisis of
identity facing today's Jewish community. In Why Should Jews
Survive?, he provides a provocative and powerfully argued challenge
to the dominant theme of modern Jewish thought.
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