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267 CHAPTER฀1:฀ENCOuNTERING฀THE฀HOLOCAuST 1. Richard Rubenstein, After Auschwitz: Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism (Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, 1966). 2. For my own work in discussing the formation of Holocaust Theology see Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation: The Challenge of the 21st Century, Third and Expanded Edition (Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2004), 15–30. 3. Rubenstein, The Cunning of History: Mass Death and the American Future (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), 4–5. 4. Ibid., 21. 5. Rubenstein, The Cunning of History. 6. Rubenstein, After Auschwitz, ix–x. 7. For a history of the development of the museum see Edward Linenthal, Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001). 8. Elie Wiesel, A Jew Today (New York: Random House, 1978), 11. 9. Lucy Dawidowicz, “Thinking about the Six Million: Facts, Figure, Perspectives,” in Holocaust : Religious and Philosophical Implications, ed. John Roth and Michael Berenbaum (New York: Paragon House, 1989), 61. 10. On the evolution of Night see Naomi Seidman, “Elie Wiesel and the Scandal of Jewish Rage,” Jewish Social Studies 3(Fall 1966): 1–19. 11. Elie Wiesel, Night (New York: Hill and Wang, 2006), x–xi. 12. Ibid., 34. 13. Michael Berenbaum, Elie Wiesel: God, the Holocaust and the Children of Israel (West Orange, N.J.: Behrman House, 1994), 125–51. 14. Ibid., 127. 15. Elie Wiesel, The Gates of the Forest (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966), 197. 16. Ibid., A Jew Today, 6. Notes 268฀฀฀•฀฀฀Notes 17. For the 614th Commandment see Emil Fackenheim, God’s Presence in History: Jewish Affirmations and Philosophical Reflections (New York: New York University Press, 1970), 84. 18. Ibid., 84. 19. For the description of this encounter see “Richard Rubenstein and Elie Wiesel: An Exchange,” in Holocaust, ed. Roth and Berenbaum, 346–48. 20. Rubenstein, ibid., 355. 21. Ibid., 356. 22. Elie Wiesel, “Israel Twenty Years Later,” in Against Silence: The Voice and Vision of Elie Wiesel, vol. 2, ed. Irving Abrahamson (New York: Holocaust Library, 1985), 191, 190. 23. Ibid. 24. Ibid., “At the Western Wall,” Hadassah Magazine (July 1967): 4. 25. Ibid., 7. 26. Ibid., 6. 27. Elie Wiesel, “A Moral Victory,” in Against Silence, 187. 28. “An Exchange,” Holocaust, ed. Roth and Berenbaum, 356–57. 29. Ibid., 357. 30. Ibid., 357. 31. Ibid., 367. 32. See Wiesel, Night, 24–27. 33. Ibid., 7. 34. Richard Rubenstein, “Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi,” Perspectives on the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Raul Hilberg, ed. James Pacy and Alan Wertheimer (Boulder: Westview, 1995), 146, 149. 35. For a critical understanding of Wiesel’s moral leadership see Mark Chmiel, Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001). 36. Ibid., 150. 37. Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (London: Verso, 2000), 3–4. 38. Phillip Lopate, “Resistance to the Holocaust,” Tikkun 4 (1989): 56. 39. Avishai Margalit, “The Kitsch of Israel,” New York Review of Books 35 (November 24, 1988): 23. 40. www.huffingtnpost(om/2009/06/05obama-buchenwald-speech-t_N-211898.html CHAPTER฀2:฀ENCOuNTERING฀THE฀BIBLE 1. Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. Ronald Gregor Smith (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970) and Martin Buber, Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis (New York: Schocken, 1963). 2. Elie Wiesel, All the Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs (New York: Knopf, 1995), 154–55. 3. Ibid., 354–55. 4. Aubrey Hodes, Martin Buber: An Intimate Portrait (New York: Viking, 1971), 16. 5. Ibid., 18–19. 6. Quoted in Kenneth Paul Kramer, Martin Buber’s I and Thou: Practicing Living Dialogue (New York: Paulist, 2003), 5. 7. Charles Hartshorne, “Martin Buber’s Metaphysics,” The Philosophy of Martin Buber, ed. Paul Arthur Schilpp and Maurice Friedman (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1967), 49. 8. Buber,” Teaching and Deed,” Israel and the World, 139, 141, 138, 145. 9. Ibid., 45. 10. Ibid., 45–46. 11. Ibid., 46. 12. Buber, The Two Foci of the Jewish Soul,” Israel and the World, 28–29. Notes฀฀฀•฀฀฀269 13. Ibid., 30. 14. Martin Buber, “The Prejudices of Youth,” Israel and the World, 45. 15. For my discussion of the prophetic voice in the twentieth century see Marc H. Ellis, Peter Maurin: Prophet in the Twentieth Century (New York: Paulist, 1980). 16. Buber, I and Thou, 70–71. 17. Ibid., 91. 18. Buber, “The Prejudices of Youth,” Israel and the World...