Continuity and Change

Steven T. Katz received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1972. He is the director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University, Boston, Mass., where he holds the Alvin J. and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish and Holocaust Studies. His publications include Post-Holocaust Dialogues, which won the National Jewish Book Award in 1984; Historicism, the Holocaust and Zionism (1992); and the multi-volume study The Holocaust in Historical Context, of which volume one was selected as "the outstanding book in philosophy and theology" of 1994 by the American Association of University Publishers. His work on the Holocaust also includes editing two volumes about the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish thought, the most recent of which is Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses During and After the Holocaust.Stephen Bayme serves as national director of the William Petschek Contemporary Jewish Life Department of the American Jewish Committee and of its Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Relations. He earned a Ph.D. in Jewish history from Columbia University, and has served as visiting associate professor of history at the Jewish Theological Seminary and adjunct professor at Yeshiva University. He has also been a faculty member of the Wexner Foundation and the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship. His publications include Understanding Jewish History: Texts and Commentary, a survey of the Jewish historical experience, and Jewish Arguments and Counter-Arguments, a volume of essays on contemporary Jewish life. He frequently contributes to both scholarly publications and popular organs of opinion.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 1. Dr. Irving Greenberg: A Biographical IntroductionChapter 3 2. Intra-Aggadic Control of Theological Freedom: A SpeculationChapter 4 3. Has the Holocaust Been a Turning Point in Christian Theology About Judaism?Chapter 5 4. Amalek, Zionism and Belief in the Messiah: Further Reflections on Jewish Faith and Jewish PowerChapter 6 5. Colleagues and Friends: Letters between Rabbi Samuel Belkin and Rabbi William G. BraudeChapter 7 6. Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyady as an EducatorChapter 8 7. The Jewish Outreach Enterprise: Rhetoric and RealityChapter 9 8. The Kippah Comes to AmericaChapter 10 9. Jewish Religious Thought and Practice during the HolocaustChapter 11 10. The Murder of Jewish Children during the HolocaustChapter 12 11.Mah Tovu as a Psychological Introduction to PrayerChapter 13 12. "Interpreting Rabbinic Religion through the Lens of the Three Eras"Chapter 14 13. Yavneh and Irving Greenberg: Envisioning a Jewish Educational RevolutionChapter 15 14. The Message of the Gog Pericope, Ezekiel Chapters 38-39Chapter 16 15. The Fate of Hope in a Time of Renewed AntisemitismChapter 17 16. It is 2008: Are We One Jewish People?Chapter 18 17. Rebbe Israel of KozhenitzChapter 19 BibliographyChapter 20 Contributors