Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review)

Shofar, March, 2003 by Patterson, David

Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America, by Michael L. Morgan. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 265 PP. $24.95.

Jewish thought has been in a state of crisis ever since the night of the Holocaust descended upon the world. Sorting through the crisis is a daunting task, but it is one that Michael L. Morgan has admirably pursued in his book Beyond Auschwitz. Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America. In this book Morgan does an excellent job of summarizing and, to some extent, critiquing the thought of five key post-Holocaust Jewish thinkers: Richard Rubenstein, Eliezer Berkovits, Irving Greenberg, Arthur Cohen, and Emil Fackenheim.

Morgan's interest in these Jewish thinkers revolves around three challenges: (1) to...

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