(God) After Auschwitz
Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought
Chapter One
Once upon a time we were dreaming of sweet and imaginary fires and of crumbling wedding canopies, but he, Sutzkever, beheld man in his utter ugliness, in his physical and spiritual degradation. (Marc Chagall)
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN was certainly not the first to note that "the Holocaust was born and executed in our modern rational society, at the high stage of our civilization and at the peak of cultural achievement, and for this reason it is a problem of that society, civilization and culture."1 Indeed, catastrophic suffering belongs to the entire twentieth century-a century in which mass murder and mass death marked the convergence of modern organization, modern technology, and human propensities for violence and apathy. The Holocaust, two world w ... read full excerpt from (God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought ebook
