The Holocaust

Question 1

What was Hitler’s perspective of Jewish people?

Answer 1

It is almost seen as a taboo to be Jewish, he dehumanises a Jew and there is hatred towards them.

Question 2

What groups did hilter see inferior?

Answer 2

Jews, gypsises and slaves also homosexual and the disabled.

Question 3

What were the master race?

Answer 3

Based upon superior blood line the blond hair and blue eyes of the Nordic people was savoured.

Question 4

What was Kristallnacht?

Answer 4

Jewish shops had signs telling people not to shop there. In 1938 the Nazi’s told people to go around and smash up the Jewish shops. This is Kristallnacht ( Crystal night). This could be seen as the beginning of the Holocaust.

Question 5

What was one treatment of Jews when they entered Aushwitz?

Answer 5

There were Gas chambers holding up to 2000 people at a time.

Question 6

What was a Pogrom?

Answer 6

is a violent riot aimed at the massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews.( Kristallnacht)

Question 7

What are 4 peoples responses to the Holocaust?

Answer 7

Elie wisel
Emil Fackenheim
Eliezer Berkovits
Richard Rubinstein.

Question 8

What are 3 other responses to the Holocaust?

Answer 8

Orthodox Jews - the Holocaust was a punishment for the Halakah movement.
Hilter had free will
Maybaum ( cleansing the world)

Question 9

What was Elie Wisel’s response to the Holocaust?

Answer 9

He believes that God is limited and that the covenenat was broken during the Holocaust. He lost his faith in the holocaust..

Question 10

What was Emil Fackenheim’s response to the holocaust?

Answer 10

The holocaust showed Gods will that they were the chosen ones and that produced a new Commandment the 614 th mizvot : Jews are forbidden to give Hitler a posthumous victory.

Question 11

What is Berkovits response to the Holocaust?

Answer 11

The Holocaust should be understood as God’s inscrutable plan. This means that for Jews, you cannot understand and explain his words e.g. story of Job

Question 12

What is Rubenstein response to the Holocaust?

Answer 12

God is nothing and died in the Holocaust. The slow, painful death of the Jews through the concentration camps shows the emphasis of human power over Gods power.

Question 13

What are Orthodox Jews response to the Holocaust?

Answer 13

The holocaust was the result of the Hasalkah movement. This was a punishment as many Jews were turned to disrespect his words such as reform Jews.

Question 14

What is the response of free will mean?

Answer 14

Everyone has free will, so it is up to Hilter what he shall do with it. God doesn’t interevene untill he has to make a descion to go to heaven or hell.

Question 15

What is Maybaum’s response to the Holocaust?

Answer 15

It seen as cleansing and purifying the world.

Question 16

What does Fackneheim’s response suggest?

Answer 16

Gods faith and loyalty should never be put to question. The stuggle developed by Jews can help develop them , suffering is needed.

Question 17

What are links and Counter to Fackneheims respsonse?

Answer 17

Judah Halevi Pittyuims

Although Flew would see this as meaningless as religious belief qualify there beliefs

Question 18

What does Rubensteins response suggest?

Answer 18

God doesn’t contradicts value of love and the ocmmandmenets such by how much people died in the Holocaust.

Question 19

What are links and Counter to Rubstenteins response?

Answer 19

Mackie’s inconsistent traid ( all three propostions cannot be simultaneously true,)
However,Process theodicy helps resolve this problem ( God is a fellow sufferer’ who understands he doesn’t have total power’ ( so therefore its not necessary to worship God)

Question 20

What does Berkovits response suggests?

Answer 20

We must trust in God, like Job, meaning Jews can provide a role model and be a catalyst of strengthening Jewish faith, removing reform ideas of faith in which he doesn;t like.

Question 21

What are links and Counter to Berkovits response?

Answer 21

The 613 mitzvots ( its hard to follow, but jews must show commitment)
Natural moral law ( virute and vices ) we must not question God and work towards our goals.
Holocaust serves as a religious experience which St theresa Avila stats ‘ wholly impossible to doubt that i have been in God and God in me’

Question 22

What does Orthodox response suggest?

Answer 22

Mendelossophn spearing Halakah with Philospophical thought, Jews reject the idea of the chosen people and this is refelcted in the Tenakh where God says heh will ocntinue to bless abrahams generation and continue to be with them but this was not the case for the Haskalah. This is why they reject works from Maimondies.

Question 23

What are links and Counter to Orthodox response?

Answer 23

Rashi, would have never agreed to reconcile philosphical ideas with Judaism.
Language games

Question 24

What does the free will response suggest?

Answer 24

God cannot intervene because we would not develop, cherish and understand the meaning of the values of the world. Holocaust cannot be as a result of God but a disbelief of God.

Question 25

What are links and Counter to the free will response?

Answer 25

Ireanuean theodicy states that we have an ‘epistemdic distance’ to God , meaning we are not robots
John Hick’s Eschatological verification ( results of hitler will be verfied after death)
Links to Mendelssohn’s idea that we don’t have free will.

Question 26

What does the Maybum argument suggest?

Answer 26

Due to secular movements the Holocaust allows for cleanse in the world, allowing Jews to find their purpose. Without the Holocaust there wouldn’t be Rabbis work avaliable

Question 27

What are links and Counter to the Maybaum response?

Answer 27

The kalam argument, this is the idea that every beginning has a cause so therefore the Holocaust has a cause. 
Ethical monotheism( unites all Jews and fundemental for understanding of Judaism, just as Holocaust, it brings people together and allows people to rediscover identitiy.