Abstract
This article sets out to review a wide range of moral and ideological criticism by a number of rabbis relating to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and its transformation into a part of the Israeli ethos.1 While these rabbis’ personal background does play a significant role in the nature of their criticism and their ideological slant, they do raise moral points of major importance relating to coping with the question of the Uprising in the light of Jewish sources. In the course of this article I shall attempt to show if and to what extent it is possible to categorize this criticism in the light of the Just War Theory and thereby reach a sort of codex of the ethics of the limitations on war according to a selection of post-Holocaust rabbis.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | War and Peace in Jewish Tradition |
Subtitle of host publication | From the Biblical World to the Present |
Pages | 165-185 |
Number of pages | 21 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781136625121 |
State | Published - 15 Mar 2012 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Social Sciences