Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Encountering the Holocaust Elie Wiesel 13
On First Hearing the Holocaust Named 13
Writing The Other Kingdom 18
The Question of God After 21
The Additional Covenant 28
Holocaust Martyrdom and the 1967 War 34
Holocaust Icon 43
Chapter 2 Encountering the Bible Martin Buber 53
Teaching as a Prophetic Encounter 58
The Prophetic Community 66
History as a Mysterious Approach to Closeness 78
Isaiah's Arrow in the Quiver 83
Buber's Intriguing Bible 87
Chapter 3 Encountering God After Abraham Joshua Heschel 95
Bridging the Interfaith Divide 100
A Disturbing Nostalgia? 110
God of the Prophets 114
Rendezvous with Destiny 124
Praying with My Feet 135
Chapter 4 Encountering Jewish Politics Hannah Arendt 143
Judging Eichmann 147
The Hidden Tradition 157
Jewish Identity(s) 167
Bracketing Jewishness 183
Chapter 5 Encountering the Jewish Prophetic Emmanuel Levinas 195
The Passion of Passions 199
Ethics as the Optic of the Divine 211
Expiating Blasphemy in Advance 218
Asceticism and the Prophetic 225
Levinas's Ambivalence 233
Epilogue: Encountering the Jewish Future 243
Someone Has Deceived You, My Dear Friend 246
Aaron Crossing the Empire Divide 252
Being Jewish in a Globalized World 257
Notes 267
Index 275