The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth
century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the
future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the
author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of
Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt
to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and
catastrophic suffering. The author terms this rejection
"Antitheodicy," the refusal to accept that relationship. It finds
voice in the writings of three particular theologians: Richard
Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, and Emil Fackenheim.
This book is the first to bring postmodern philosophical and
literary approaches into conversation with post-Holocaust Jewish
thought. Drawing on the work of Mieke Bal, Harold Bloom, Jacques
Derrida, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, and others, Braiterman
assesses how Jewish intellectuals reinterpret Bible and Midrash to
re-create religious thought for the age after Auschwitz.
In this process, he provides a model for reconstructing Jewish
life and philosophy in the wake of the Holocaust. His work
contributes to the postmodern turn in contemporary Jewish studies
and today's creative theology.
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