Richard L. Rubenstein is Rober O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion and Codirector of the Humanities Institute at Florida State University. His other books include The Religious Imagination, The Cunning of History: Mass Death and the American Future, The Age of Triage, and, with John K. Roth, Approaches to Auschwitz.
Preface
Preface to the first edition
Part I. The Encounter of Christian and Jew
Chapter 1. The Dean and the Chosen People
Chapter 2. Person and Myth in the Judeo-Christian Encounter
Chapter 3. Religion and the Origins of the Death Camps: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Chapter 4. The Auschwitz Convent Controversy
Part II. The Meaning of the Holocaust
Chapter 5. The Unmastered Trauma: Interpreting the Holocaust
Chapter 6. Modernization and the Politics of Extermination: Genocide in the Historical Context
Chapter 7. Covenant, Holocaust, and Intifada
Part III. Theology and Contemporary Judaism
Chapter 8. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1
Chapter 9. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1
Chapter 10. The Rebirth of Israel in Contemporary Jewish Theology
Chapter 11. War, Zionism, and Sacred Space
Chapter 12. The Meaning of Torah in Contemporary Jewish Theology
Chapter 13. Death-of-God Theology and Judaism
Chapter 14. Jews, Israel, and Liberation Theology
Chapter 15. Muslims, Jews, and the Western World: A Jewish View
Chapter 16. God after the Death of God
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index