"The Future Jew" by Michael Carin: Abolishing God to redeem the six million

This new book by prize-winning author Michael Carin says that the Jewish people have not yet responded decisively to the Holocaust. They have failed to identify the event as a radical turning point in their history. "The Future Jew" declares that the extermination of six million innocents could only have happened in a world devoid of divinity.

What have we learned
from the Holocaust?

"The Future Jew"
A book by Michael Carin identifying the Holocaust
as a radical turning point in the history of Judaism

Montreal, November 21, 2001: Who are the Future Jews? They are the Jews who have read the writing on the wall of reality. And they are the Jews who hold resolutely to remembrance. They refuse to forget the European genocide of the 1940s and they take instruction from it. During the murder of the six million no merciful Almighty arrived to redeem the innocent. The future Jews interpret that absence as history's most compelling evidence that no Supreme Being exists. They say that the role of Judaism now is to free people from the barren seductions of the supernatural. This effort to put God into retirement, into the gallery of former idols, is a repercussion of the Holocaust that will resound through all time. It aims to be the marker in history that will forever recall the Holocaust.

What do the future Jews aim to achieve?
Nothing less than a reformation in consciousness befitting the third millennium. In the past the Jews created a literature and an enduring myth about God that have done much to shape the history of human thought. Their accomplishment did not signify the strength of God; rather it proved the potency of myth and literature. In the future, responding definitively to the Holocaust, the Jews will create a whole new literature-and a very different myth.

"A noble, thoughtful, and surprisingly successful effort at pointing the way to a Judaism without God."
Mark Phillips
CBS News
London, England

Michael Carin is a prize-winning journalist and the author of Five Hundred Keys (Deneau, 1980) and The Neutron Picasso (Deneau, 1989). Trained as a political theorist at McGill University, he later did graduate work in English literature. For several years he wrote book reviews for The Montreal Gazette. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Montreal Business Magazine for nearly a decade. Both of Mr. Carin's previous books won critical acclaim and identified him as a questing, inventive, resourceful and always supremely readable writer. He describes The Future Jew, six years in the making, as "my answer to the Holocaust as a fighting Jew and a reasoning being."

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