jewish thinkers session ii. another person or school of thought significant to judaism
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Jewish ThinkersSession II
another person or school of thought significant to Judaism
Holocaust Theology
• Four Major thinkers– Emil Fackenheim– Ignaz Maybaum– Richard Rubinstein– Eliezer Berkovitz
• Other trends– Redemptionist theology– Anti-Zionism
Who’s not includedand why
• Primo Levi
• Eli Weisel
Minor Schools
• Redemptionist Theology– Israel is the redemption of the 6 million
• Anti-Zionism– Ultra Orthodox such as Satmar and Naturei
Karta• Punishment for lack of observance and adoption of
zionism• Israel can only exist when the Messiah comes
theocracy
Emil Fackenheim
• the 614th commandment
Ignaz Maybaum
• Ignaz Maybaum (1897, Vienna - 1976) was one of the leading Jewish theologians of the 20th Century.
• Agued that Holocaust was the Third Churban (destruction)
Richard Rubinstein
Eliezer Berkovits