Turmoil still grips the Middle East and fear now paralyzes post-9/11 America. The comforts and challenges of this book are thus as timely as when first published in 1987. With new reflections on the future of Judaism and Israel, Ellis underscores the enduring problem of justice. Ellis' use of liberation theology to make connections between the Holocaust and contemporary communities from the Third World reminds both Jews and oppressed Christians that they share common ground in the experiences of abandonment, suffering, and death. The connections also reveal that Jews and Christians share a common cause in the battle against idolatry--represented now by obsessions for personal affluence, national security, and ethnic survival. According to Ellis, Jews and Christians must never allow the reality of anti-Semitism to become an excuse for evading solidarity with the oppressed peoples--be they African, Asian, Latin American or, especially, Palestinian.
Autorentext
Marc H. Ellis
Inhalt
Foreword by Desmond Tutu and Gustavo Gutierrez
Introduction
1. A Shattered Witness
The Witness of Elie Wiesel
A Broken Covenant
The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz
Moment Faiths
The Holocaust as a Universal Crisis
2. The Cost of Empowerment
The Third Era of Jewish History
The New Anti-Semitism
Jews Without Mercy
3. Memory as Burden and Possibility
Holocaust as Burden
Dissenters in Zion
Prophetic Warnings
4. A Tradition of Dissent
The Internal Conflict over Zionism, 1937-67
Victory and Occupation, 1967-87
Jewish Responses to the First Palestinian Uprising, 1987-93
Oslo, the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and Beyond, 1993-99
5. Toward an Inclusive Liturgy of Destruction
Bitburg and the Messianic
Thinking the Unthinkable
Envisioning a Common History
The Revenge Must Stop
6. Liberation Struggles and the Jewish Community
Liberation Theologies from Around the World
A Palestinian Theology of Liberation
Four Elements of a Jewish Response
7. From Holocaust to Solidarity
The Challenges of a New Theology
Practicing Justice and Compassion in a Post-Holocaust/Post-September 11th World
Is Peace Possible in the Middle East in the 21st Century?
Epilogue: The Coming of Constantinian and Evangelical Judaism
Notes
Index