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Jewish Thinkers Session II

Jewish Thinkers Session II. another person or school of thought significant to Judaism. Holocaust Theology. Four Major thinkers Emil Fackenheim Ignaz Maybaum Richard Rubinstein Eliezer Berkovitz Other trends Redemptionist theology Anti-Zionism. Who’s not included and why. Primo Levi

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Jewish Thinkers Session II

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  1. Jewish ThinkersSession II

  2. another person or school of thought significant to Judaism

  3. Holocaust Theology • Four Major thinkers • Emil Fackenheim • Ignaz Maybaum • Richard Rubinstein • Eliezer Berkovitz • Other trends • Redemptionist theology • Anti-Zionism

  4. Who’s not includedand why • Primo Levi • Eli Weisel

  5. Minor Schools • Redemptionist Theology • Israel is the redemption of the 6 million • Anti-Zionism • Ultra Orthodox such as Satmar and Naturei Karta • Punishment for lack of observance and adoption of Zionism • Israel can only exist when the Messiah comes  theocracy

  6. Emil Fackenheim • the 614th commandment • thou shalt not grant Hitler a posthumous victory

  7. Ignaz Maybaum • Ignaz Maybaum (1897, Vienna - 1976) was one of the leading Jewish theologians of the 20th Century. • Agued that Holocaust was the Third Churban (destruction)- others were the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples in Jerusalem • Just out of those destructions Judaism developed and flourished, Maybaum argues something similar will happen out of the Shoah

  8. Richard Rubinstein • it is no longer possible to believe in a supernatural Deity who acts in history [1960s]- follows Nietzsche • Recently retracted much of his writings- later works affirm of form of deism in which one may believe that God may exist as the basis for reality.

  9. Eliezer Berkovits • G-d turns G-d’s face aside • Because human beings have been given the freedom to choose to be good, they are free also to choose evil. God does not intervene to curtail such freedom

  10. Subsequent additions • Jonathan Sacks • Yitz Greenberg • Edward Feld • Steven Katz

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