Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck

<p><i>The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck</i> provides an overview of the life of Dr. Leo Baeck (1873–1956) a German-Jewish rabbi theologian historian and Holocaust survivor from a psychoanalytic perspective.</p><p>Paul Marcus approaches Baeck’s life and intellectual/theological contribution as it interfaces with a broadly defined psychoanalysis. This book describes and explains how Baeck maintained the rudiments of his autonomy integration and humanity while remaining in Nazi Germany and while in the ghetto Theresienstadt displaying astonishing courage character and goodness—a triumph of a civilized person amidst Nazi brutality. Marcus also considers psychic resilience and moral psychology and assesses contemporary criticisms of Baeck.</p><p><i>The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck</i> will be of interest to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies spirituality Jewish studies and resistance. It will also appeal to psychoanalysts in training and in practice.</p>