The Death of Emil Fackenheim

I was saddened to hear about the passing on Friday of Emil Fackenheim. Fakenheim was a good philosopher who was very influential as a post-holocaust thinker. His main idea regarding the holocaust is that it is to be viewed as an injunction to Jews to continue being Jews and to perpetuate Judaism. To cease to contintinue, or to stop the chain of Jews is to grant Hitler and the Nazis a postumous victory. (This is an argument I disputed in print once, by the way, but I will not discuss here). His passing is a loss to Judaism, Jewish thought, and philosophy.