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Blumenthal was born in Brooklyn, the son of Jane M. (née Rosenstock) and Martin A. Blumenthal, the president of a commodities trading firm. [2] [3] His mother was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to a Jewish family that originated in Prussia and Baden, and his father was a Jewish immigrant from Frankfurt, Germany. [4]
David R. Blumenthal is the retired Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies at Emory University. He has contributed greatly to the growth of Jewish Studies, the place of Judaism in...
Intrigued by hearing the same response from individuals who rescued Jews, David R. Blumenthal proposes that the notion of ordinariness used to characterize Nazi evil is equally applicable to goodness.
Nov 15, 1993 · According to Blumenthal, if we take the traditional position of Jewish theology, which recognizes God as a major actor in most of the significant events of Jewish history, we ought to view God as an abuser.
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David R. Blumenthal. Professor Blumenthal took his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He teaches and writes on constructive Jewish theology, medieval Judaism, Jewish mysticism, and holocaust studies.
David R. Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies. Professor Blumenthal took his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He teaches and writes on constructive Jewish theology, medieval Judaism, Jewish mysticism, and holocaust studies.
What makes this work unique is that Professor Blumenthal has been able to combine the research from social and experimental psychology, philoso-phy, education, literature on the Holocaust and rescuers during the Nazi era, and religious teachings from the Jewish tradition. In his fourteen chapters, Blumenthal manages to present a body of knowledge
