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	Emil Fackenheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emil Ludwig Fackenheim, Ph.D (June 22, 1916 – September 18, 2003) was a noted Jewish philosopher and rabbi.
		Fackenheim researched the relationship of the Jews with God, believing that the Holocaust must be understood as an imperative requiring Jews to carry on Jewish existence and the survival of the State of Israel.
		Fackenheim applied this reasoning to the state of Israel and its Law of Return as a necessity to prevent a second Holocaust.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emil_Fackenheim (2388 words)

	REL R345 21977 Emil Fackenheim and the Holocaust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Emil L. Fackenheim, who died in 2003, was one of the most important and influential Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century.
		Fackenheim is most famous for his reflections on Judaism, Jewish thought and philosophy in response to the Nazi Holocaust.
		In this course we shall focus on Fackenheim’s philosophical and theological response to Auschwitz and the death camps.
	www.indiana.edu /~deanfac/blspr06/rel/rel_r345_21977.html (471 words)

	NATIV - Nov. 2003 - Emil Fackenheim, z"l
		For Emil Fackenheim had two spiritual, wrenching, messages in the midst of the contradictions of a diaspora community, that was upwardly mobile and constantly trying to fit in.
		Emil’s philosophical message had a political application and he did not hesitate to lay its meaning bare by a letter to the editor or a question from the audience to a panel of pundits.
		She was a student of Professor Fackenheim in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in the 1970s and a considers herself enormously fortunate to have been a friend ever since.
	www.acpr.org.il /NATIV/2003-6/2003-6-bayefsky-xs.htm (1233 words)

	Emil Fackenheim Biography / Biography of Emil Fackenheim Religion Biography
		Fackenheim traveled by ship to Canada, spent months in a camp in Sherbrooke, Ontario, and was eventually released, whereupon he went directly to the University of Toronto and was accepted into the doctoral program in philosophy.
		Such ongoing Jewish life, Fackenheim claims, can be interpreted as a response to a sense of necessity, and this necessity takes the shape of a duty to oppose all that Nazism sought to accomplish in its hatred of Jews and Judaism and in its rejection of human dignity.
		Fackenheim's philosophical commitments were deeply immersed in existential and concrete realities, most notably the historicity of philosophical and religious thought, the hermeneutical and situated character of human existence, and the unprecedented evil of Nazis and the death camps.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-fackenheim-emil-eorl-05 (1213 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Judaism According to Emil Fackenheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Seltzer, Robert M. In the course of overlapping careers as rabbi, professor of philosophy, and theologian, Emil Fackenheim has produced a shelf of books that must be considered among the most important works of serious Jewish religious thought in the second half of this century.
		...Fackenheim was not alone in requiring the passage of two decades after the end of World War II to gain sufficient perspective on the Holocaust to be able to confront it theologically...
		...Fackenheim, by contrast, came to speak of a "Jewish return to history," the title of a book he published in 1978, and of Zionism and the state of Israel as the main vehicles of that return...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V86I3P32-1.htm (3730 words)

	Emil Ludwig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emil Ludwig (1881-1948) was a German author, known for his biographies.
		Emil Ludwig (originally named Emil Cohn) was born in Breslau, now part of Poland.
		Emil Ludwig interviewed Joseph Stalin in Moscow on December 13, 1931.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emil_Ludwig (362 words)

	Jewish-Christian Relations :: Fackenheim, Emil L. — In Memoriam
		Emil L. Fackenheim, one of the leading Jewish scholars of the 20th century, died in Jerusalem on September 19, 2003.
		Emil Fackenheim was perhaps best known for his insistence that, after the Shoah, the Jewish people has an obligation to survive.
		Fackenheim’s autobiography is to be published in November, 2003, by the University of Wisconsin Press under the title An Epitaph for German Judaism: From Halle to Jerusalem.
	www.jcrelations.net /en?id=2067 (215 words)

	Encore: Eugene Borowitz, Emil Fackenheim as Lurianic Philosopher
		Encore: Eugene Borowitz, Emil Fackenheim as Lurianic Philosopher
		Fackenheim believes we can avoid the potential moral degeneracy lurking in Heidegger's ideas though we adopt one of his key concepts: when we authentically face up to our death, our lives are touched with transcendence (Heidegger's philosophical equivalent to religion's Ultimate One).
		Fackenheim's theology is not, however, a radically surprising structure in the history of human religion.
	www.clal.org /e101.html (2075 words)

	Fackenheim, Emil Ludwig on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		FACKENHEIM, EMIL LUDWIG [Fackenheim, Emil Ludwig], 1916-2003, Canadian-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, b.
		He was sent to Canada in 1940, where he was a rabbi (1943-48), then professor of philosophy (1948-84) at the Univ. of Toronto; he subsequently moved to Israel, where he was associated with the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem.
		Fackenheim explored the problem of revelation and the relationship of the Jews with God, believing that the Holocaust must be understood as an imperative requiring Jews to carry on Jewish existence and that the existence of the state of Israel is a rebuke to those who view the Jewish people as obsolete or dying.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/Fackenhe.asp (234 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Emil Fackenheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In a fuller expression of his sentiment, Fackenheim explains the concept this way: The 1967 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Six-Day War or June War, was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
		Methodist minister Rev. Robert A. Hill quotes Fackenheim in a sermon with this context: The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster.
		From the perspective of most Christian faiths, whose doctrines normally advocate conversion of nonbelievers, this represents a deep respect for Fackenheim's concept: Gregory Baum (born 1923, Berlin, Germany) is a Canadian Catholic theologian.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Emil-Fackenheim (3906 words)

	emil fackenheim - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Emil Fackenheim (June 22, 1916 September 18, 2003) was a noted Jewish philosopher and rabbi.
		Held by the British as an enemy alien after the outbreak of World War II, Fackenheim was sent to Canada in 1940, where he revceived Ph.D. at University of Toronto (1945) and became Professor of Philosophy (19481984).
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	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/emil-fackenheim (192 words)

	Fackenheim, Emil Ludwig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fackenheim, Emil Ludwig, philosopher, theologian (b at Halle, Germany 22 June 1916).
		Fackenheim's writings include Metaphysics and Historicity (1961), Quest for Past and Future (1968), The Religious Dimension in Hegel's Thought (1968), God's Presence in History (1970), The Jewish Return into History (1978) and To Mend the World (1982).
		In 1998 he was the subject of a Vision TV series Emil Fackenheim: A Spiritual Declaration.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0002699 (201 words)

	Emil Fackenheim
		Fackenheim has not undertaken to respond to those criticisms in their own terms: his thinking is that the enormous and horrible fact of the Holocaust, which demands a philosophical and religious response, summons us to do things that would otherwise be unthinkable.
		Fackenheim's death at the age of 87 is another reminder that the time in which we can appeal to eyewitnesses who lived in Hitler's death camps and survived to tell the tale is slowly drawing to a close.
		Fackenheim was in a camp for no other reason than that he was a Jew, but the Christians with whom he spoke there had actually done something or other to incur the wrath of the Nazis.
	www.redeemer.on.ca /~tplant/m/MCM.HTM (6369 words)

	On the Uniqueness of the Holocaust
		Fackenheim's third argument for the uniqueness of the holocaust claims that the unusual methods of cruelty used by the Nazis, including but not limited to senseless torture and the muselmann idea, is evil previously unknown in the world.
		Yet Fackenheim himself implies that whether a practice is policy or not does not alter its moral status: "Hoess was at all times free to volunteer for the Russian front: he chose not to use that freedom," (Ibid.) and the Nuremburg Trials agree.
		Fackenheim then takes the other argument, that people were turned into muselmanner just to make it so, not for practical or even ideological gain, that when they were non-systemic, the unusual cruelty shown by Nazis is yet more horrifying.
	www.metatronics.net /lit/fack.html (7622 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Emil Fackenheim, 87; rabbi, philosopher
		JERUSALEM -- Rabbi Emil Fackenheim, a leading Jewish philosopher who explored the essence of Judaism in the aftermath of the Holocaust, died Friday.
		Rabbi Fackenheim was held in Britain as an enemy alien after the outbreak of World War II and was eventually sent to Canada, Slater said.
		Rabbi Fackenheim's works argued that the Holocaust must be understood as an imperative requiring Jews to carry on Jewish existence.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/09/22/emil_fackenheim_87_rabbi_philosopher (369 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Jewish Return Into History, by Emil L. Fackenheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		...Now Emil Fackenheim, one of the most sophisticated Jewish religious thinkers, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, has written a book which gives profound expression to the functional theology of contemporary Jews at large...
		...Fackenheim regards the former as a "blasphemous" enterprise, the latter as "inescapable...
		...The 614th commandment, Fackenheim asserts, is an "abrupt and absolute given, revealed in the midst of total catastrophe," and, as such, is binding on every "authentic" Jew, whether religious or secular...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V66I4P84-1.htm (1303 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Emil Fackenheim
		In the mid-1960s, Fackenheim coined a 614th commandment, not listed in the Hebrew Bible - "not to despair of God and not to despair of man"; as a corollary, he argued that Jewish survival "denied Hitler a posthumous victory".
		One 17th-century Fackenheim fought in the 30 years' war; Emil's father, Julius, founded the Jewish sports club in Halle to drum Prussian discipline into his community.
		Fackenheim was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, but released after three months.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1059938,00.html (756 words)

	UW Press - : An Epitaph for German Judaism: From Halle to Jerusalem, Emil Fackenheim
		Emil Fackenheim's life work has been to call on the world at large—and on philosophers, Christians, Jews, and Germans in particular—to confront the Holocaust as an unprecedented assault on the Jewish religion and on humanity.
		Fackenheim discusses his decision to return to Israel to live, his wife's conversion to Judaism, and the relationship between the Holocaust, Judaism, and the State of Israel for the development of his thought.
		Emil Fackenheim is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
	www.wisc.edu /wisconsinpress/books/2199.htm (497 words)

	Emil Fackenheim: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Emil Fackenheim (June 22, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Emil's older brother who refused to leave Germany was killed in the Holocaust[Click link for more facts about this topic].
		Fackenheim researched the relationship of the Jews with God, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/em/emil_fackenheim.htm (633 words)

	Kolel Books and Links
		Emil had the quite remarkable ability to make words dance off the page with humour and power, even when writing in a language which was his second, even his third.
		The book is also filled with references to Fackenheim's own experiences—in Nazi Germany, meeting and studying (illegally) with refuseniks in the former Soviet Union, the saving of Ethiopian Jewry by Israel, his own personal aliyah, his daughter's experiences on a kibbutz, and more, making it all the more personal, meaningful, emotional.
		Emil Fackenheim's life was a gift to every Jew and every Gentile as well, even if most of the latter are not fully aware of it.
	www.kolel.org /pages/books/fackenheim.html (1044 words)

	Faith and Solidarity after the Holocaust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Emil Fackenheim’s “The Commanding Voice of Auschwitz” (1970) is a manifesto for contemporary Jewish thought.
		Fackenheim says that it is important to discuss the holocaust with everyone, keeping it in the global collective conscious.
		Fackenheim accomplishes this with divine innuendo (Voice is always capitalized) and Berkovits with literal acquiescence of God’s presence in the Holocaust.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~marcum/faithholocaust.htm (850 words)

	News@UofT -- In memoriam: University Professor Emeritus Emil Fackenheim -- October 6, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Fackenheim was born in Halle, Germany, where he received his early education.
		Fackenheim was arrested and spent the next three months at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp outside Berlin.
		Fackenheim was accepted into the PhD program at the University of Toronto upon his release, completing his degree in 1945.
	www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca /bin5/031006f.asp (589 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		By n “Ethics After the Holocaust,” one of my contemporary studies courses, I recently gave a seminar on the thought of the late Emil Fackenheim, the well-known Canadian Jewish philosopher and theologian who had a distinguished career at the University of Toronto and Hebrew University.
		Fackenheim was known for his powerful reading of the Holocaust as a moment of rupture, not only in Jewish ritual and culture, but, more broadly, in the discipline of philosophy as a whole.
		Reading Fackenheim, it is easy to understand Israel as part of a new moment emerging from a thousand-year history of exile and displacement.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=5866 (646 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Encounters Between Judaism and Modern Philosophy, by Emil L. Fackenheim; If Not Now, When? by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		...Fackenheim disputes this rigid view, showing that, "in point of historical fact," Jewish history is characterized by a series of "internal Jewish self-mediations" which facilitated adaptation and survival in the midst of successive cultures...
		...Although Fackenheim is impressed with the relative justice accorded Judaism in Hegel's exposition-the kernel of spiritual truth within Judaism is retained in the Hegelian system-still he points out that the system as a whole supersedes Judaism, which now assumes the character of partial truth...
		...Fackenheim seeks to explode these assumptions-they include the premise that Jews can be fairly judged by a civilization that has pursued them-in the name of the authenticity of Jewish thought...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V56I6P90-1.htm (2717 words)

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