God and the Holocaust / Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Where was God when six million died?

 The twentieth century has never presented a more serious theological question.

 Over the past forty years it has haunted a series of writers. In this illuminating study, Dan Cohn-Sherbock explores the work of eight major Holocaust theologians. He argues that all ultimately fail to reconcile, as they must, the reality of suffering with the loving kindness of God.

 In a moving final chapter, he quarries from the Jewish tradition his own solution, which confronts the evil of Nazism but still leaves room for hope.

 God and the Holocaust is not just a book for Jews. It is for everyone who feels overwhelmed by the miseries of the world but is at the same time convinced of the mercy and justice of the living God.

 “Dan Cohn-Sherbok skilfully exposes the inadequacies in this-worldy thrust on the part of Jewish theologians attempting to cope with the Holocaust. At last there has appeared a brave affirmation of the doctrine of the Hereafter as an essential feature of Judaism”. Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs