This text analyzes the dialectic relations between the two major components of the collective Jewish identity the Holocaust, and the state of Israel. The symbolic points for the beginning and the end of the book are: the Eichmann trial in Israel, and the founding of the Memorial Museum in Washington in 1993. At the first point the question was: has Israel the right to judge Eichmann in the name of the world Jewish people and at the second point, what is the Memorial representing: the unique Jewish tragedy or a universal problem? The research for the book was done on the basis of constant...
This text analyzes the dialectic relations between the two major components of the collective Jewish identity the Holocaust, and the state of Israel. ...
This text analyzes the dialectic relations between the two major components of the collective Jewish identity the Holocaust, and the state of Israel. The symbolic points for the beginning and the end of the book are: the Eichmann trial in Israel, and the founding of the Memorial Museum in Washington in 1993. At the first point the question was: has Israel the right to judge Eichmann in the name of the world Jewish people and at the second point, what is the Memorial representing: the unique Jewish tragedy or a universal problem? The research for the book was done on the basis of constant...
This text analyzes the dialectic relations between the two major components of the collective Jewish identity the Holocaust, and the state of Israel. ...
During the past two generations, Jewish public thought and discourse has differed dramatically from that of the era between the Emancipation and the Second World War. The chasm of the Holocaust and the watershed establishment of a Jewish state has radically changed the Jewish intellectual landscape. With their two largest concentrations in Israel and the United States, the Jews are no longer a European nation. Above all, the Jews, for the first time since they went into exile, have become free individuals, with the right to choose between the land of their birth and their ancestral...
During the past two generations, Jewish public thought and discourse has differed dramatically from that of the era between the Emancipation and th...
