The Holocaust and the intellectuals on the fifties and sixties -- Responses to Auschwitz and the literary imagination -- Jewish theology in postwar America -- The early stage: the sixties -- The Six Day War and American Jewish life -- Richard Rubenstein and the new paganism -- Eliezer Berkovits and the tenacity of faith -- Irving Greenberg and the post-Holocaust voluntary covenant -- Arthur Cohen and the Holocaust as Tremendum -- Emil Fackenheim: fidelity and recovery in the post-Holocaust Epoch -- The reception of post-Holocaust Jewish thought -- Postmodernism, tradition, memory: the contemporary legacy of post-Holocaust Jewish thought
Summary
This book offers a comprehensive overview of post-Holocaust Jewish theology, quoting from and interpreting all of the significant American writings of the movement
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and indexes
