Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought

Download or read book Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought written by Pesach Schindler and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.