Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish CultureSyracuse University Press, 1 de des. 1999 - 388 pàgines This text documents a virtually unknown chapter in the history of the refusal of Jews throughout the ages to surrender. The author employs wide-ranging scholarship to the Holocaust and the memories associated with it, in affirmation of both continuities and violent endings. |
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Pàgina 117
... gentile credulity . Serves them right ! And as they busily collected the inheritance that was left to them involuntarily , they shook their heads half in sympathy and half in jest : " If Esau only knew how things would turn out ! " 20 ...
... gentile credulity . Serves them right ! And as they busily collected the inheritance that was left to them involuntarily , they shook their heads half in sympathy and half in jest : " If Esau only knew how things would turn out ! " 20 ...
Pàgina 170
... Gentiles are altogether different . The Goy - for - the - Sabbath " knows well and good that what they eat , he , Khvedor , can also eat , but what he , Khvedor , eats — they are forbidden to eat " ( chapter 3 ) . He asks no questions ...
... Gentiles are altogether different . The Goy - for - the - Sabbath " knows well and good that what they eat , he , Khvedor , can also eat , but what he , Khvedor , eats — they are forbidden to eat " ( chapter 3 ) . He asks no questions ...
Pàgina 261
... Gentiles ( " holocaust " as burnt offering ) , it had none of the ready connotations of the alternative names just mentioned . So much the better , for it was precisely the nonreferential quality of " Holocaust " that made it so ...
... Gentiles ( " holocaust " as burnt offering ) , it had none of the ready connotations of the alternative names just mentioned . So much the better , for it was precisely the nonreferential quality of " Holocaust " that made it so ...
Continguts
Ruined Cities of the Mind | 1 |
The Liturgy of Destruction | 15 |
Broken Tablets and Flying Letters | 53 |
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