Hasidic tales of the Holocaust / [edited] by Yaffa Eliach.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eliach, Yaffa.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Hasidim--Biography.

Hasidim.

Hasidim--Legends.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Biographies.

Legends.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxii, 266 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.

Summary:

'An important work of scholarship and a sudden clear window onto the heretofore sealed world of the Hasidic reaction to the Holocaust. Its true stories and fanciful miracles tales are a profound and often poignant insight into the souls of those who suffered terribly at the hands of the Nazis and who managed somehow to use that very suffering as the raw material for their renewed lives.'

Contents:

One. Ancestors and Faith

Two. Friendship

Three. The Spirit Alone

Four. At the Gates of Freedom.

Notes:

"Based on interviews and oral histories, this collection of 89 stories is the first anthology of Hasidic stories about the Holocaust, and the first ever in which women play a large role ..."--Dust jacket.

Dust jacket has comment from Chaim Potok praising this book.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has complimentary card from author pasted on front free endpaper.

Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.

ISBN:

0195031997 :

OCLC:

8452056