Word: post-holocaust
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Such open theological aggression is rare in post-Holocaust interfaith parley--or buried amid affirmations of commonality and practical issues like those impacting the state of Israel. But Neusner had collected an interesting fan. He and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had struck up a professional correspondence after the rabbi wrote the Cardinal an admiring note about something he had published. Ratzinger blurbed A Rabbi Talks as "by far the most important book for the Jewish-Christian dialogue in the last decade...
...idea of the triumph of one people being the tragedy of another is eloquently captured in Sandy Tolan's book, The Lemon Tree - essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the difficulty in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tolan chronicles the true story of Dalia Eshkenazi, whose family flees post-Holocaust Bulgaria in 1948 to live the Zionist dream of building a Jewish state in the Holy Land. The new Israeli government provides them with an abandoned Arab house in the town of Ramla, in which she grows up. One summer morning in 1967, she's sitting in the garden...
Following the fortunes of one family for nearly two millenniums requires an epic of biblical dimension. In another writer's hands such a project might seem an unholy wedding of hubris and chutzpah. But Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls...
...anti-Semitic statements." Though there were no comparative data, my bet is that in Germany the "AQ" (or "anti-Semitism quotient") is no higher - and perhaps even lower - than in neighboring West European countries. So, can we sleep sound and tight? No. The problem with such data is that post-Holocaust anti-Semitism is enveloped in a most powerful taboo - people hide it and surveys underreport it. But perhaps there's another way to measure it. Judging from the news out of Brussels last week, one might surmise that some anti-Israelism is a form of sublimated anti-Semitism...
...trounced and condemned to Christian conversion by a supposedly impartial judge—has elicited extraordinarily varied critical and dramatic interpretations over the past century. Shakespeare wrote the play as a comedy, compelling some critics to categorize it as anti-Semitic, particularly in the heightened awareness of post-Holocaust scholarship...