N O V E M B E R 1 9 9 9 ![]() AFTER AUSCHWITZby Yehuda Amichaitranslated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld | |||||||||||||
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After Auschwitz, no theology: From the chimneys of the Vatican, white smoke rises -- a sign the cardinals have chosen themselves a Pope. From the crematoria of Auschwitz, black smoke rises -- a sign the conclave of Gods hasn't yet chosen the Chosen People. After Auschwitz, no theology: the inmates of extermination bear on their forearms the telephone numbers of God, numbers that do not answer and now are disconnected, one by one. After Auschwitz, a new theology: the Jews who died in the Shoah have now come to be like their God, who has no likeness of a body and has no body. They have no likeness of a body and they have no body. Yehuda Amichai is an Israeli poet and the author of Open Closed Open(1998), which will be published in an American edition this spring. Copyright © 1999 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; November 1999; After Auschwitz; Volume 284, No. 5; page 58. |
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