The Female Face of God in Auschwitz
Title | The Female Face of God in Auschwitz PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Raphael |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Femininity of God |
ISBN | 9780415236652 |
The first full-length feminist dialogue with Holocaust theory, theology and social history. Considers women's reactions to the holy in the camps at Auschwitz.
The Female Face of God in Auschwitz
Title | The Female Face of God in Auschwitz PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Raphael |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780415236645 |
The first full-length feminist dialogue with Holocaust theory, theology and social history. Considers women's reactions to the holy in the camps at Auschwitz.
The Female Face of God in Auschwitz
Title | The Female Face of God in Auschwitz PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Raphael |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134561725 |
The first full-length feminist dialogue with Holocaust theory, theology and social history. Considers women's reactions to the holy in the camps at Auschwitz.
The Female Face of God in Auschwitz
Title | The Female Face of God in Auschwitz PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Raphael |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134561717 |
The dominant theme of post-Holocaust Jewish theology has been that of the temporary hiddenness of God, interpreted either as a divine mystery or, more commonly, as God's deferral to human freedom. But traditional Judaic obligations of female presence, together with the traditional image of the Shekhinah as a figure of God's 'femaleness' accompanying Israel into exile, seem to contradict such theologies of absence. The Female Face of God in Auschwitz, the first full-length feminist theology of the Holocaust, argues that the patriarchal bias of post-Holocaust theology becomes fully apparent only when women's experiences and priorities are brought into historical light. Building upon the published testimonies of four women imprisoned at Auschwitz-Birkenau - Olga Lengyel, Lucie Adelsberger, Bertha Ferderber-Salz and Sara Nomberg-Przytyk - it considers women's distinct experiences of the holy in relation to God's perceived presence and absence in the camps. God's face, says Melissa Raphael, was not hidden in Auschwitz, but intimately revealed in the female face turned towards the other as a refractive image of God, especially in the moral protest made visible through material and spiritual care for the assaulted other.
Rena's Promise
Title | Rena's Promise PDF eBook |
Author | Rena Kornreich Gelissen |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2015-03-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0807093130 |
An expanded edition of the powerful memoir about two sisters' determination to survive during the Holocaust featuring new and never before revealed information about the first transport of women to Auschwitz In March 1942, Rena Kornreich and 997 other young women were rounded up and forced onto the first Jewish transport of women to Auschwitz. Soon after, Rena was reunited with her sister Danka at the camp, beginning a story of love and courage that would last three years and forty-one days. From smuggling bread for their friends to narrowly escaping the ever-present threats that loomed at every turn, the compelling events in Rena’s Promise remind us that humanity and hope can survive inordinate brutality.
The Sunflower
Title | The Sunflower PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Wiesenthal |
Publisher | Schocken |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2008-12-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0307560422 |
A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more. You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do? While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place? In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past.
Women in the Holocaust
Title | Women in the Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Dalia Ofer |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300080803 |
Introduction : the role of gender in the Holocaust / Lenore J. Weitzman and Dalia Ofer -- Gender and the Jewish family in modern Europe / Paula E. Hyman -- Keeping calm and weathering the storm : Jewish women's responses to daily life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 / Marion Kaplan -- The missing 52 percent : research on Jewish women in interwar Poland and its implications for Holocaust studies / Gershon Bacon -- Women in the Jewish labor bund in interwar Poland / Daniel Blatman -- Ordinary women in Nazi Germany : perpetrators, victims, followers, and bystanders / Gisela Bock -- The Grodno Ghetto and its underground : a personal narrative / Liza Chapnik -- The key game / Ida Fink -- 5050