To Mend the World

Emil L. Fackenheim

1982

What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? After this catastrophe, what is a Jew’s relation to the Jewish past? We resume our original question as we turn from one rupture in post-Holocaust Jewish existence—of the bond with the Gentile world—to the other—of the bond with his own past history, past tradition, past God.

After all previous catastrophes ever since…

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Emil L. Fackenheim

1916–2003
Emil L. Fackenheim was born in Halle, Germany. Arrested in 1938, he escaped the Sachsenhausen labor camp in 1939, and fled to England. He later lived in Canada and Israel. A professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, he addressed Jewish identity, the Holocaust, and German philosophy in his scholarship. Fackenheim was also an ordained Reform rabbi.

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