Research Catalog

Title

Beyond innocence and redemption : confronting the Holocaust and Israeli power : creating a moral future for the Jewish people / Marc H. Ellis.

Author

Ellis, Marc H.

Publication

San Francisco : Harper & Row, c1990.

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Description

xvi, 214 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Examines the emerging Holocaust consciousness after World War II which saw Jewish suffering as mandating empowerment in Israel, and which also recognized some of the dangers inherent in empowerment. Analyzes the views of Jewish Holocaust theologians such as Elie Wiesel, Emil Fackenheim, and Irving Greenberg. Contends that their theology, depicting Jewish suffering and innocence and specialness, has become normative in Jewish conversation and activities, and this Holocaust theology is used as legitimation for oppressing the Palestinians. Describes, also, Palestinian and Christian viewpoints on Israel's actions. Calls for a confrontation with state power and its legitimating force (i.e. Zionism and Holocaust theology), based on the Jewish tradition of dissent, in order to recover the ethical tradition at the heart of Judaism.

Alternative Title

• Holocaust and Israeli power.
• Beyond innocence & redemption
• Confronting the Holocaust and Israeli power

Subject

• Holocaust (Jewish theology)
• Jewish-Arab relations > Judaism
• Judaism and social problems
• Israel > Moral conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-209) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The birth of Holocaust theology -- Holocaust theology -- Eichmann and Jerusalem -- 1967: the miracle -- The third era of Jewish history -- The ethics of Jewish power -- 2. Memory as burden and possibility: alternative views of Holocaust and Israel -- Holocaust as burden -- Dissenters in Zion -- Prophetic warnings -- 3. A tradition of dissent -- The internal conflict over Zionism, 1937-1967 -- Victory and occupation, 1967-1987 -- Jewish responses to the Palestinian uprising -- Desecrating a legacy -- A history of oppression -- 4. Toward an inclusive liturgy of destruction -- Bitburg and the Messianic -- Thinking the unthinkable -- Palestinian voices as a challenge to Jewish history -- The occupation is over -- A Palestinian theology of liberation -- 5. Holocaust, Israel, and Christian renewal -- Jews and the crisis of Christian liberalism -- Israel and Christian renewal -- The Palestinian uprising and Christian theology -- 6. Beyond innocence and redemption -- Confronting state power -- The hidden tradition -- A coalition of Messianic trust -- The revival of critical thought -- The task before us.

ISBN

0060622156 (alk. paper) :

LCCN

^^^89045954^

OCLC

• 20799618
• SCSB-12642135

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library