Reflections on Emil L. Fackenheim z"l (1916-2003): the man and his holocaust philosophy.(Obituary)

From: Shofar | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Garber, Zev | Copyright information

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Professor Emil Ludwig Fackenheim, the eminent German-born Jewish philosopher of the Shoah, died in Jerusalem on 22 Elul 5763 (19 September 2003). Though his roots are with the great German-Jewish thinkers such as Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, and Walter Benjamin, and his religio-philosophical faith with Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Baeck and Martin Buber, his fate as a refugee Jewish philosopher and writer is more akin to Hannah Arendt and Ernst Bloch, who desc...

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