David Novak Quotes
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.
Novak, David. The Jewish Social Contract: An Essay in Political Theology. Princeton University Press, 2005.
Auschwitz was the worst of the German Nazi WWII Death Camps where over 2 million people were murdered.
David Novak, FRSC is a Jewish theologian, ethicist, and scholar of Jewish philosophy and law (Halakha). He is an ordained Conservative rabbi and holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of the Study of Religion and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto since 1997. His areas of interest are Jewish theology, Jewish ethics and biomedical ethics, political theory (with a special emphasis on natural law), and Jewish-Christian relations.