Post-Holocaust Dialogues: Critical Studies in Modern Jewish Thought

by Steven T. Katz, J. Francis. Gladstone

Charging that may widely held opinions found in the body of modern Jewish philosophy are inadequate if not false, Katz attempts a reconstruction of these beliefs into a more compelling and tightly composed account of Jewish thought. The book addresses a number of particularly significant topics relating Jewry, with essyas on Martin Buber, Eliezer Berkovits, Richard Rubenstein, Emil Fackenheim, and Ignaz Maybaum.
A significant review of Jewish philosophical foundations by one of today's most dynamic and important scholars of Judaism.

1 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 1985

About the author

Steven Theodore Katz is an American philosopher and scholar. He is the director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University in Massachusetts, United States, where he holds the Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies.

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a criticism of many post-holocaust theologies. It is very valuable for its analysis of Buber and Fackenheim. The primary problem I have with the book is that it offers "truth through criticism" but fails in attempting any kind of synthesis that helps actually arrive at a positive truth rather than negation of claims by others to truth.

[Inknscroll]

This book, also, was recommended in the "Bookmarks" magazine's issues of either: (Nov/ Dec 2007) or (Jan/ Feb 2008).