The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the HolocaustPsychology Press, 2003 - 228 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
The argument of this book | 4 |
From Jewish womens history to Jewish feminist theology | 13 |
Reading postHolocaust theology from a feminist perspective | 19 |
Writing women out of and into postHolocaust theology | 21 |
The patriarchal characteristics of postHolocaust theology | 27 |
PostHolocaust affirmations of the sovereignty of God | 29 |
Gods failure to be patriarchal enough | 35 |
The degradation of relation | 89 |
The persistence of relation | 94 |
Facing God in Auschwitz | 100 |
A motherGod in Auschwitz | 107 |
Divine motherhood and providence | 110 |
The maternal face of God in Auschwitz | 118 |
A dying and deathless God | 124 |
The redemption of God in Auschwitz | 128 |
Refiguring divine power | 37 |
The hiding of Gods face in Auschwitz | 43 |
The holocaustal disappearance of God | 44 |
A God who looks away | 47 |
Presence absence and gender | 50 |
Israel present to God | 54 |
Feminist intimations of the holy in Auschwitz | 59 |
The profanization of women in Auschwitz | 63 |
Washing Auschwitz | 67 |
Womens sanctification of Auschwitz | 70 |
The deportation of the holy into Auschwitz | 81 |
Face to face with God in Auschwitz | 86 |
Envisioning tikkun | 134 |
Signals of redemption | 139 |
Jewish mysticism and the narration of redemption | 145 |
Jewish feminism and the redemptive process | 149 |
God going with us | 152 |
The vision of God in Auschwitz | 157 |
a feminist maaseh after Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav | 161 |
Notes | 166 |
Select glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish terms | 205 |
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The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust Melissa Raphael Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust Melissa Raphael Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
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Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide Nicholas Robert Michael De Lange,Miri Freud-Kandel Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |