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This insightful book seeks to address the meaning of Shoah and its effect on the meaning of life in a post-Holocaust world. With a methodological, pedagogical, and theological thrust, the author's objective is to preserve and present the Shoah as living history for Christians and Jews in an age of ethnic cleansing and Godforsakeness.
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Zev Garber is Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at Los Angeles Valley College. Additionally, he is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in the Shoah series (University Press of America) and co-editor of Shofar, a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish Studies. In 2005, Garber will serve as the Visiting Rosenthal Professor at Case Western Reserve University.nive
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This new collection of essays and personal reflections... show both a sense of sound scholarship and a perceptive insight into its ultimate impact on human meaning in the contemporary world.>>>> (Rev. John T. Pawlikowski The Jewish Journal)
...he makes very useful pedagogic resources available to the Judaic studies generalist.>>>> (Hebrew Studies)
...so chock-full of facts, concepts, theories and scholarly skills. Garber is keenly aware here both of what historical honesty and sensitive interpretation of the religious imagination demand of us. He does justice to both demands.>>>> (Jewish Spectator)
Professor Garber's book is a helpful and instructive commentary for those who teach abouth the Shoah....[The book is] both personal and scholarly....>>>> (Knight, Henry F. Jewish Spectator)
This scholarly book reflects [Garber's] commitment to preserving the memory of the Shoah by exploring its significance as 'living history.'...It provides a comprehensive and scholarly outline for those seriously interested in learning about the Holocaust, not for those content to see the occasional movie and wipe away the occasional tear.>>> (Knight, Henry F. The Jewish Journal)
For the last decade and more, Garber (Los Angeles Valley College) has been a productive participant in the wide ranging discussion of the meaning and implications of the Shoah. [At] (t)he heart of the book,...Garber shows himself to be an intelligent, sensitive, spiritually engaged scholar for whom Auschwitz is more than an academic concern ...A provocative and rich collection. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty. (Choice)
...he makes very useful pedagogic resources available to the Judaic studies generalist. (Hebrew Studies)
...so chock-full of facts, concepts, theories and scholarly skills. Garber is keenly aware here both of what historical honesty and sensitive interpretation of the religious imagination demand of us. He does justice to both demands. (Jewish Spectator)
Professor Garber's book is a helpful and instructive commentary for those who teach abouth the Shoah....[The book is] both personal and scholarly.... (Knight, Henry F. Jewish Spectator)
This scholarly book reflects [Garber's] commitment to preserving the memory of the Shoah by exploring its significance as 'living history.'...It provides a comprehensive and scholarly outline for those seriously interested in learning about the Holocaust, not for those content to see the occasional movie and wipe away the occasional tear. (Knight, Henry F. The Jewish Journal)
...he makes very useful pedagogic resources available to the Judaic studies generalist.>>>> (Hebrew Studies)
...so chock-full of facts, concepts, theories and scholarly skills. Garber is keenly aware here both of what historical honesty and sensitive interpretation of the religious imagination demand of us. He does justice to both demands.>>>> (Jewish Spectator)
Professor Garber's book is a helpful and instructive commentary for those who teach abouth the Shoah....[The book is] both personal and scholarly....>>>> (Knight, Henry F. Jewish Spectator)
This scholarly book reflects [Garber's] commitment to preserving the memory of the Shoah by exploring its significance as 'living history.'...It provides a comprehensive and scholarly outline for those seriously interested in learning about the Holocaust, not for those content to see the occasional movie and wipe away the occasional tear.>>> (Knight, Henry F. The Jewish Journal)
For the last decade and more, Garber (Los Angeles Valley College) has been a productive participant in the wide ranging discussion of the meaning and implications of the Shoah. [At] (t)he heart of the book,...Garber shows himself to be an intelligent, sensitive, spiritually engaged scholar for whom Auschwitz is more than an academic concern ...A provocative and rich collection. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty. (Choice)
...he makes very useful pedagogic resources available to the Judaic studies generalist. (Hebrew Studies)
...so chock-full of facts, concepts, theories and scholarly skills. Garber is keenly aware here both of what historical honesty and sensitive interpretation of the religious imagination demand of us. He does justice to both demands. (Jewish Spectator)
Professor Garber's book is a helpful and instructive commentary for those who teach abouth the Shoah....[The book is] both personal and scholarly.... (Knight, Henry F. Jewish Spectator)
This scholarly book reflects [Garber's] commitment to preserving the memory of the Shoah by exploring its significance as 'living history.'...It provides a comprehensive and scholarly outline for those seriously interested in learning about the Holocaust, not for those content to see the occasional movie and wipe away the occasional tear. (Knight, Henry F. The Jewish Journal)
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- PublisherUniversity Press Of America
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0819196584
- ISBN 13 9780819196583
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages232
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