In Search of Yesterday The Holocaust and the Quest for Meaning

by Jacobs, Steven Leonard

• ISBN13: 9780761832454
• ISBN10: 0761832459
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-28
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

In Search of Yesterday is a distillation of the author's writings about the Holocaust / Shoah over the span of the last several years in three distinct areas family stories, the quest for meaning in seemingly inexplicable events, and rethinking and reinterpreting biblical texts in light of the Holocaust / Shoah.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
A family lost forever
Introduction to part I	p. 3
Letters from Zerbst	p. 7
Re-reading my father's autobiography upon returning from Germany and Poland	p. 19
Almost fifty years of living with the Shoah : reflections both personal and professional	p. 29
The Holocaust and the quest for meaning
Introduction to part II	p. 43
Revisionism comes to campus in Alabama : David Irving, Robert Faurisson, Ernst Zundel, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville - 1993 and 1994	p. 49
Sixty years after the Holocaust : Martin Buber's The eclipse of God reconsidered	p. 67
Can betrayal ever be legitimate?	p. 75
Critical issues and controversies in Holocaust education	p. 81
Rethinking education in light of the Shoah	p. 91
Who do you say that I am (Mark 8:29) : a post-Holocaust/Shoah response to contemporary christologies	p. 95
Binjamin Wilkomirski (Fragments) and Donald Watt (Stoker) : when the Holocaust story is a lie	p. 105
A rabbi among the "Goyim" : teaching the Holocaust/Shoah to Catholics (1997-1984), Baptists (1988-1990), and Methodists (1984-2000)	p. 119
Rethinking the role/place/function of Judaism and Christianity after the Holocaust/Shoah in the twenty-first century	p. 129
Should art address horror? : theogical and other reflections on art and the Shoah	p. 145
KLM 84338 : the writings of orthodox rabbi and Shoah survivor Isaac C. Avigdor	p. 161
Wrestling with biblical texts : Torah and New Testament
Introduction to part III	p. 179
Avraham, Emil and Andre : re-reading Avraham's monologue with the divine in light of Fackenheim and Neher (Bereshith/Genesis 18:16-33)	p. 185
Reading the Bible after the Shoah (antisemitism and the Bible) : exploring Shemot (Exodus) 24 and Matthew 17:1-13	p. 195
Morning Midrash : wrestling with the biblical texts of Ezekiel 37 and Matthew 28	p. 207
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