Open Wounds: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

by David Patterson and David Patterson

In this book, David Patterson sets out to describe why Jews must live -- but especially think -- in a way that is distinctly Jewish.

For Patterson, the primary responsibility of post-Holocaust Jewish thought is to avoid thinking in the same categories that led to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. The Nazis, he says, were not anti- Semitic because they were racists; they were racists because they were anti-Semitic, and their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029598645X
• ISBN13: 9780295986456
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"