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 16
... desecration of both religions . The brutal hand of a soldier run wild had exacted the same re- prisal from God as from man . " It takes a very modern sensibility to perceive a double desecration . Indeed , this detailed and gripping ...
... desecration of both religions . The brutal hand of a soldier run wild had exacted the same re- prisal from God as from man . " It takes a very modern sensibility to perceive a double desecration . Indeed , this detailed and gripping ...
Pàgina 17
... desecration : " Five calamities befell our ancestors on the seventeenth of Tammuz and five on the ninth of Av . On the seven- teenth of Tammuz the tablets of the law were broken , the daily burnt offering ceased , the walls of Jerusalem ...
... desecration : " Five calamities befell our ancestors on the seventeenth of Tammuz and five on the ninth of Av . On the seven- teenth of Tammuz the tablets of the law were broken , the daily burnt offering ceased , the walls of Jerusalem ...
Pàgina 19
... desecration had a unifying effect when the cove- nantal promise was invoked in group dialogue with God , just as the at- tempt to put cataclysm on a continuum implied a shared , communal memory . What of the individual , however ? If ...
... desecration had a unifying effect when the cove- nantal promise was invoked in group dialogue with God , just as the at- tempt to put cataclysm on a continuum implied a shared , communal memory . What of the individual , however ? If ...
Continguts
Ruined Cities of the Mind | 1 |
The Liturgy of Destruction | 15 |
Broken Tablets and Flying Letters | 53 |
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