Morgan, Michael L. Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America.(Book Review)

History: Review of New Books, March, 2002 by Pollak, Oliver B.

Morgan, Michael L. Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America New York: Oxford University Press 288 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-19-514589-5 Publication Date: October 2001

Michael L. Morgan, a professor of philosophy and Jewish studies at Indiana University, edited (with Oxford University Press) A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination in 2000, a volume that presented a selection of twenty-two voices. The 2001 volume under review here narrows the focus to five theological and philosophical thinkers whose work developed from the later 1960s and had appeared by 1982. Morgan defines "Jewish thought" as "Jewish self-understanding from a religious point of view."

Morgan sees the Six-Day War in 1967 as a watershed for Jewish...

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