Language:
English
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
37,1 (2009) 109-136
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Hasidism History
;
Zionism Philosophy
;
Rabbis
Abstract:
Discusses reactions in Hungary to the escape of some hasidic rabbis, particularly Rabbi Aharon Rokach of Belz and his brother Rabbi Mordechai Rokach of Bilgoray, in winter 1943-44. Focuses on an essay in a memorial issue in spring 1944 of the Hungarian rabbinical journal "Tel Talpiyot", probably written by Meshulam Zalman Katzburg, the son of the journal's editor until 1936, David Zvi Katzburg. The essay, entitled "Va-yehi bi-nesoah" ("And It Shall Be When They Travel"), strongly criticizes the hasidic rabbis for leaving their followers to suffer in the Holocaust without leaders, and for preventing their followers from emigrating to Eretz Israel before the Holocaust. Notes that this essay was published in two other journals in the same year. Discusses, also, post-Holocaust criticism of the rabbis who escaped, especially by Avigdor Katzburg, the brother of Meshulam Zalman.
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English and Hebrew.
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