Arthur Allen Cohen: Being a Jew in America

Abstract

This paper is meant to be an analysis of the complexity of Jewish identity in America and in general terms, its vindication of the so-called “American experience” in the works of the American author Arthur Allen Cohen, an American novelist, editor, philosopher and theologian, specially known for his book The Tremendum, one of the most original interpretations of the Holocaust in the 20th Century. The paper means to do so by introducing the main aspects of his life and work.