Wrestling with the Angel: Toward a Jewish Understanding of the Nazi Assault on the Name

by David Patterson and David Patterson

This book shows that, proceeding from philosophical precedents, the Nazis undertook an assault on God, who in the Jewish tradition is known as the Name and that this assault has implications for Jewish thinking about Jewish identity in the post-Holocaust era. It shows that in the assault on the Name, there is an assault on the name--that is, on the very identity--of the Jew. The book examines the tradition of philosophical anti-Semitism that led to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557788456
• ISBN13: 9781557788450
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"