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Title : Angel of Jewish History The Image of The Jewish Past in The Twentieth Century Paperback: 402 pages Publisher: Magnes Press,Israel (December 1, 2013) Language: Hebrew ISBN-10: 9654936933 ISBN-13: 978-9654936934 Description :    The Angel of Jewish History casts a philosophical gaze upon the relationship between the traditional Jewish past and the present through the metaphysical worldviews of five formative Jewish studies scholars: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Amos Funkenstein, Gershom Scholem, Baruch Kurzweil, and Nathan Rotenstreich. Their hermeneutic worldviews and writings deal with the nature and formation of modern Judaism, the Wissenschaft des Judentums, historicism, the image of the Jewish past and tradition, secularization, and God's status in present-day Jewish reality. In this volume, these issues are explored against the background of the tense discourse between the perception of modern Jewish reality as a break from the past and tradition an...

Title : AFTER GENOCIDE How Ordinary Jews Face the Holocaust Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Karnac Books (December 17, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 1782201920 ISBN-13: 978-1782201922 Description :  2015 will be the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War Two, and, for Jews, the seventieth anniversary of the end of the worst Jewish catastrophe in diaspora history. After Genocide considers how, more than two generations since the war, the events of the Holocaust continue to haunt Jewish people and the worldwide Jewish population, even where there was no immediate family connection. Drawing from interviews with “ordinary” Jews from across the age spectrum, After Genocide focusses on the complex psychological legacy of the Holocaust. Is it, as many think, a “collective trauma”? How is a community detached in space and time traumatized by an event which neither they nor their immediate ancestors experienced? “Ordinary” Jews’ own words bring to...