Postscript

The conclusion of this book cursorily looks beyond it by reconvening the encounter between the protagonists of the preceding chapter. It would be blasphemous to consider the establishment of the State of Israel as somehow compensation, or in vulgar terms, a consolation prize for the devastation of the Shoah . However, it would also leave a gaping lacuna for any current Jewish philosophical theology not to at least attempt to theologically engage this radical historical transformation of Jewish existence. This postscript probes the question of how does Israel, a guarantor of Jewish physical survival, shape our future relationship with the Divine, while at the same time remaining cognizant of the brute historical fact of the Shoah that ruptured the continuum of Jewish philosophical theology and threatened its very viability?

Art · Consolation · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · The Holocaust · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity