Wrestling Until Daybreak: Searching for Meaning in the Thinking on the Holocaust

by Eliezer Schweid

Overview

This book focuses on some of the main ethical and spiritual problems raised by the Holocaust. It is divided into two parts, addressing first the views and moral dilemmas of prominent Jewish thinkers and leaders such as Rabbi Leo Baeck, Dr. Viktor Frankl, and Rabbi Sh. Teichthal. The book's second half presents the authors own reflections on the problem of 'justification of religion' and faith after Auschwitz.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819193599
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	04/05/1994
Series:	Milken Library of Jewish Public Affairs Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	185
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Eliezer Schweid is Professor of Jewish Philosophy at The Hebrew University.