Encountering the Jewish Future: With Wiesel, Buber, Heschel, Arendt, Levinas

by Marc H. Ellis

Marc Ellis maintains that the most vital questions about Judaism are prefigured in the work of Elie Wiesel, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas. Ellis's work is framed by encounters with each thinker's work, focusing on topics of God, the Holocaust, the prophetic legacy, philosophical and ethical standpoints, and Jewish empowerment and dissent. Two generations after the Holocaust and Israel's founding, Ellis argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B009KJBCCW
• ISBN13: 9780800697938
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"