{"id":1659,"date":"2017-09-07T20:55:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2017-09-07T20:55:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:55:05","slug":"can-we-speak-of-a-divine-purpose-to-the-holocaust-hasidic-and-religious-zionist-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/2017\/09\/07\/can-we-speak-of-a-divine-purpose-to-the-holocaust-hasidic-and-religious-zionist-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Speak of a Divine Purpose to the Holocaust? Hasidic and Religious Zionist Perspectives (4\/12\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong style=\"font-family: inherit\">April 12th at 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1660 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/divinity-300x216.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/divinity-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/divinity-1024x736.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/divinity-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/divinity-1536x1104.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/divinity.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong style=\"font-family: inherit\">Vanderbilt Divinity School Reading Room<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWhere was God in the Holocaust?\u201d is one of the most frequently asked questions when the Holocaust is studied from a theological perspective. From a traditional covenantal point-of-view, one cannot easily say that God was absent in the Holocaust. Yet, from an empirical point-of-view, the Jews seemed victim not only of the Nazi onslaught, but also God having abandoned them. Hasidic and Religious Zionist thinkers each have different evocative ways of viewing God\u2019s presence in the Holocaust, even giving the genocidal tragedy a divine purpose. In this lecture, Dr. Shaul Magid, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University, will critically explore some of these views.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shaul Magid is a professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. His works have included\u00a0<em>Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica and Radzin Hasidism<\/em>\u00a0(University of Wisconsin Press, 2003),\u00a0\u00a0<em>From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala<\/em>\u00a0(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008),\u00a0\u00a0<em>American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society<\/em>\u00a0(Indiana University Press, 2013) and\u00a0<em>Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism<\/em>\u00a0(Stanford University Press, 2014).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1665 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/shaul-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/shaul-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/shaul-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/shaul-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/shaul.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 12th at 7 p.m. Vanderbilt Divinity School Reading Room \u201cWhere was God in the Holocaust?\u201d is one of the most frequently asked questions when the Holocaust is studied from a theological perspective. From a traditional covenantal point-of-view, one cannot easily say that God was absent in the Holocaust. Yet, from an empirical point-of-view, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/shaulfeature.png","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}