The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust

by Melissa Raphael

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415236657
• ISBN13: 9780415236652
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.1"