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" Why should Jews survive? : "
Michael Goldberg.
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BL
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623592
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Goldberg, Michael,1950-
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Why should Jews survive? : : looking past the Holocaust toward a Jewish future /\ Michael Goldberg.
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1995.
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ix, 191 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0195091094 (acid-free paper)
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: 9780195091090 (acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. A Tale of Two Stories: Exodus vs. Holocaust -- 2. Surviving the Holocaust: What Survived? How? And Nu...? -- 3. The Holocaust Cult -- 4. Is the Only Good God a Dead God? -- 5. A New Sinai, a New Torah, and the 614th Commandment -- 6. The Household of Israel: Is Anybody Home Besides Anne Frank and Eleazar ben Ya'ir? -- 7. Why Should Jews Survive?
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In this provocative book, Goldberg launches a bold attack on what he calls the "Holocaust cult," challenging Jews to return to a deeper, richer sense of purpose. He argues that this cult - with shrines like the U.S. Holocaust Museum, high priests such as Elie Wiesel, and rites like UJA death camp pilgrimages - is deeply destructive of Jewish identity. As the current "master story" of Judaism, Goldberg writes, the Holocaust has been used to depict Jews as uniquely victimized in human history - transforming them from God's chosen to those who manage to survive despite God's silent complicity in their persecution.
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Jews need positive reasons for remaining Jewish, he argues; they need to return to the Exodus as their master story - the story of God leading the Jews out of slavery and making with them an eternal covenant that gave the Jews a unique place in God's plan. The Jews should survive, Goldberg concludes, because they are the linchpin in God's redemption of the world.
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Jews-- Identity.
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Judaism-- 20th century.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-- Influence.
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Holocaust (Jewish theology)
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Exodus, The-- History of doctrines.
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296.3/11
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DS143.G573 1995
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