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

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index 327 Abba Isi ben Yochanan, 89 Abohav, Yitzchak, 121 Abrabanel Don Isaac, 25, 216 Abraham, 126, 134, 220, 241, 267n21, 298n66, 301n33; chosen for the sake of all nations, 84; and the Covenant, 195–96, 210–11, 242 Abraham ibn Ezra, 152, 161 Abulafia, Abraham, 263n67, 301n13 Adam, 37, 53, 88, 166, 169, 204, 234 Adorno, Theodor, 224 Agadah, 121, 151 Agus, Jacob, 275n24 Akeida, 220 Akiva, 10, 55, 56–57, 297–98n61 Albo, Joseph, 146, 186, 266n8, 287n1 Alienation, 42–43, 65, 187 Alter, Yehudah Leib, 31, 93, 114, 280n15 Amalek, 82, 216, 218, 297n53 Améry, Jean, 133, 282n52 Ammi, 15 Amos, 20 Angel of Death, 103–4, 161 Antiochus Epiphanes, 66 Anti-Semitism, 10, 21, 56, 67; philosophical , 50–55, 246–47; and Arab Muslims, 272n117 Antiworld, 108–13, 136, 164, 215 Aquinas, Thomas, 236 Arendt, Hannah, 9–10, 24, 45, 224, 264n75, 291n86 Ari, the. See Luria, Yitzchak Aristotle, 10, 22, 37, 74, 167–68, 291n86 Armillus, 236 Assi, 234 Athens, 90 Auschwitz, 18, 20, 81, 89–90, 112–13, 140, 173–74, 256; and modern thought, 42, 49–50, 83; and Jerusalem , 87, 154; and Midrash, 156; essence of, 93, 102–4, 106, 160, 164, 281n28; and Torah, 155; and tikkun haolam, 175 Authenticity, 18, 48, 83, 217, 278n83 Autonomy, 17–18, 69–77, 79, 217, 246. See also Freedom Avimelekh, 61 Avnimus, 142 Baal HaTurim, 41 Baal Shem Tov, 33, 207, 250–51, 259n5, 280n16; on the Shekhinah, 4; on the word, 93, 94, 94–95, 119; on the Messiah, 232–33, 242 Babel, 41, 49, 57, 159–60, 162 Bachya ibn Paquda, 23, 33, 38, 64, 131–32, 288n5 Baeck, Leo, 64, 99, 177 Barlev, Zvi, 300n8 Barukh, 36 Bauch, Bruno, 291n86 Bauer, Bruno, 47 Bauer, Yehuda, 5 Bauman, Zygmunt, 192 Bäumler, Alfred, 291n86 Belzec, 281n27 Benamozegh, Elijah, 100 Bergen-Belsen, 141 Berkovits, Eliezer, 8, 9, 12, 15–16, 24, 101, 239 Beruriah, 116 Betsalel, 94, 280n16 Binding of Isaac. See Akeida Birkenau, 158, 256 Bitton-Jackson, Livia, 105, 141 Blanchot, Maurice, 16 Blau, Joseph, 275n24 Blech, Benjamin, 61, 115 Body, the, 145, 227–28, 271n113; and the soul, 161, 162, 299n93 Book, the, 119–21 Bor, Josef, 107 Borowitz, Eugene, 56 Braiterman, Zachery, 9, 86, 263n60 Bread, 168–69 Breaking of the vessels, 183, 207, 208 Brearley, Margaret, 261n36 Breuer, Isaac, 274n11 Brewster, Eva, 300n8 Buber, Martin, 8, 35, 42–43, 49, 231, 245, 276–77n45 Budzyn, 214 Cain, 24, 44, 169, 212 Camon, Ferdinando, 288n11 Camus, Albert, 43, 58 Caputo, John, 49 Cargas, Harry James, 21 Caro, Joseph, 203 Caspar, Johann, 267n23 Chananiah ben Teradyon, 116 Chariot, the, 205 Chasidism, 203–4, 213, 232–33, 296n38, 296n41 Chayim ben Attar, 38, 60, 61, 242, 271n113, 273n140 Child, the, 99, 220, 234; Nazi assault on, 98, 133–38, 141–42, 199, 254, 286n43, 286n51; and the Messiah, 245 Chofetz Chaim, 34, 292n20 Chosenness, 10, 26, 39, 84, 147, 153 Christianity, 12, 50, 51, 74, 165, 170– 72, 246–47, 300n2 Circumcision, 195–96, 211, 241, 242, 301–2n34 Clermont de Tonnerre, 51 Cohen, Arthur, 6, 8, 9, 11–12 Cohen, Hermann, 73–77, 79, 80, 83, 85 Cohen, Josh, 85–86, 111 Cohn-Sherbok, Dan, 8 Commandment, 75, 101, 271n113, 273n5; as a connection to God, 328 Index 38–39, 58–59, 70, 163, 164–65, 233, 209, 273n140; and the face of the other human being, 80–81; and tikkun haolam, 177, 186–87, 192; and the Messiah, 238 Conrad, Joseph, 42 Copernicus, 40 Cordovero, Moses, 207, 208 Covenant, 10, 103, 195–96 238, 241– 42, 247, 262n50; in post-Holocaust Jewish thought, 14–15, 112; Nazi assault on, 52, 98–99, 190, 218; and memory, 59–60; and questioning God, 210–11, 239–40; at Mount Sinai, 224 Crétella, Henri, 53 Crescas, Hasdai, 300n10 Crusades, 3, 16 Culi, Yaakov, 41, 159–60 Czerniakow, Adam, 134–35 Dance, 36, 186, 251 Daniel, 253 David, 61, 106, 251 Death, 10, 146–50, 153, 155; in Jewish thought, 40, 81, 288n5; in modern philosophy, 40, 278n83; no longer death, 151, 156 Delbo, Charlotte, 55, 59, 97, 113, 132 Descartes, René, 36, 37, 167 Destiny, 25–26, 254 Devekut, 236 Divine image, 132, 148, 160, 165, 187– 89; Nazi assault on, 18–19, 149, 157–58, 161–63, 189–90. See also God; the Holy Divine Presence. See Shekhinah Divine Providence, 74, 209–10 Donat, Alexander, 103, 142...