Ethics After the Holocaust: Perspectives, Critiques, and Responses.(Review)

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Ethics After the Holocaust: Perspectives, Critiques, and Responses, edited by John K. Roth. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1999. 363 pp. $18.95.

Initial Jewish religious responses to the Shoah either affirm or challenge the authority of Jewish religious tradition on issues of belief and morality. From Richard L. Rubenstein's "death of God theology," i.e., letting go of traditional Judaism's doctrine of God for a new symbol of God's reality conducive to lessons learned from the Shoah, [1] to Eliezer Berkovitz and hasidic masters who argue classical Orthodox belief rooted in ...

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