The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors
by Reeve Robert Brenner
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The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors reveals the victims' frank and thought-provoking answers to searching questions about their experiences: Was the Holocaust God's will? Was there any meaning or purpose in the Holocaust? Was Israel worth the price six million had to pay? Did the experience in the death camps bring about an avowal of faith? A denial of God? A reaffirmation of religious belief? Did the Holocaust change beliefs about the coming of the Messiah, the Torah, the Jews as the show more chosen people, and the nature of God? Drawing on the responses of seven hundred survivors, Reeve Robert Brenner reveals the changes, rejections, reaffirmations, doubts, and despairs that have so profoundly affected the faith, practices, ideas, and attitudes of survivors, and, by extension, the entire Jewish people. Many survivors carried their deepest secrets and innermost beliefs silently, from internment to interment. But Brenner's quest provided the impetus for many survivors to end their silence about the past and come forth with their feelings. In poignant vignettes scattered throughout the book, their answers to these profound questions are offered, disclosing ardent, overpowering passions and sensibilities. show lessTags
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Reeve Robert Brenner is the founding rabbi of Congregation Bet Chesed, Bethesda, MD and is the senior staff chaplain at the National Institutes of Health (ret). He has taught in universities, including St. Vincent's College and Seminary, as its first rabbi. The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors was a finalist for the National Jewish Book show more Award and his American Jewry and the Rise of Nazism received a YLVO Jewish Scholarship Prize. Among his published books are Jewish, Christian, Chewish or Eschewish: Interfaith Marriage Pathways for New Millennium and While the Skies Were Falling: The Exodus and the Cosmos. His articles, poetry, and fiction have appeared in numerous journals and periodicals. show less
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