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Article: In memoriam: Emil Fackenheim 1916-2003; some personal reminiscences.(Obituary)
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- January 1, 2005
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At the memorial service held at Toronto's Holy Blossom Temple in October of 2003, those who eulogized Emil Fackenheim--Indiana University philosophy professor Michael Morgan, Rabbi Emeritus Dow Marmur, and former Temple president, Henrietta Chesnie--were profound, thoughtful, and inspiring in their collective recollections of the Halle-born Jewish thinker whose 614th commandment "thou shalt not give Hitler a posthumous victory," is the most widely quoted statement in the inventory of modern Jewish thought.
These eloquent speakers told the truth about Emil Fackenheim, as Huckleberry Finn would say, "mostly." But they could not compact the whole truth into a ...
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