Kabbalah and the Holocaust / Bezalel Naor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naʼor, Betsalʼel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabala--History.

Cabala.

History.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Mysticism--Judaism.

Mysticism.

Rabbis--Anecdotes.

Rabbis.

Mystics.

Mystics--Anecdotes.

Hasidim--Anecdotes.

Hasidim.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

History.

Physical Description:

135 pages : portraits ; 27 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Spring Valley, NY : Orot, 2001.

Summary:

Combines various kabbalistic and hasidic ideas with stories of several hasidic figures whose ideas prefigured the Holocaust, and of their descendants, whose lives were caught up in the Holocaust or affected by it. The locations discussed in relation to Nazi domination or threat include: Transnistria, Bulgaria, Poland (Radzyn), Yemen (San'a), and flight from Galicia that ended in the Siberian labor camp of Ynukcan. Includes accounts of miracles of survival perceived as Divine aid, in the cases of individuals and of two Jewish communities - Bulgaria and Yemen, the latter threatened by the Mufti of Jerusalem as an emissary of Hitler. Discusses the kabbalist rabbis Moses Simeon Pesach of Volos, who joined the partisans in Greece, and Samuel Solomon of Radzyn, who called on Jews to flee the ghetto and to resist the Nazi murderers. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-135).

Other Format:

Online version: Naʼor, Betsalʼel. Kabbalah and the Holocaust.

ISBN:

096745123X

9780967451237

OCLC:

48545715