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Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture
The Holocaust, in its enormity, has been viewed as an apocalyptic event, standing outside history, without analogy or precedent. Challenging this view, David Roskies places the Holocaust, and the literary responses of victims and survivors, in the context of generations of Jewish response to persecutions, pogroms, communal catastrophes.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
November 28th 1999
by Syracuse University Press
(first published 1999)
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This collection of essays traces the Jewish response to catastrophe through time from the Babylonian exile through the Holocaust. It highlights the imperfect fit of medieval theodicy to understanding the Holocaust. He addresses the issue as a literary critic, not a psychologist, sociologist nor philosopher.
The book itself is a tour de force. However, to fully appreciate the book and to effectively evaluate his arguments requires a familiarity with a la...more
This collection of essays traces the Jewish response to catastrophe through time from the Babylonian exile through the Holocaust. It highlights the imperfect fit of medieval theodicy to understanding the Holocaust. He addresses the issue as a literary critic, not a psychologist, sociologist nor philosopher.
The book itself is a tour de force. However, to fully appreciate the book and to effectively evaluate his arguments requires a familiarity with a la...more
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