Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought

• Author(s): Pesach Schindler,
• Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
• Pages: 204
• ISBN_10: 0881253103
  ISBN_13: 9780881253108
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust , Religion / Judaism / Orthodox , Religion / Judaism / Theology ,

Description:... Examines responses to the Holocaust of hasidic leaders and their followers during the war years in Europe. Discovers a correlation between these responses and fundamental hasidic tenets dealing with God's relationship to man and to the Jewish people, redemption and the messianic era, Kiddush Hashem and Kiddush ha-Hayyim, the hasidic fraternal bond, and the relationship between the hasid and the zadik or rebbe. Hasidism offered a system of concepts that could be used to interpret the Holocaust, and provided a social framework and leadership to articulate these concepts. These may have served as shock absorbers for the hasidim facing the trauma of Holocaust events.