Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy
Angaben zur Quelle:
31,2 (2023) 233-260
Keywords:
Yehoshuʻa Heshil ben Yitsḥaḳ Yoʼel,
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Haggadah Commentaries
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Hasidism History 20th century
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Orthodox Judaism History 20th century
Abstract:
Todat Yehoshua (1935), a Hasidic commentary on the Passover Haggadah by Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Rabinowitz of Monastyrishche, Ukraine, later of Brownsville, New York, offers an important perspective on Orthodox experience in North America in the interwar period. On his reading, the Haggadah invites an understanding of history that recognizes and contends with all that is radically unholy: from secularism, enlightenment, and Zionism in the Jewish camp, to Marxism, communism, anarchy, Nazism, and contemporary antisemitism. As a Hasidic tsadik and émigré rabbi, R. Yehoshua Heschel sought to revitalize religion as an existentially vital facet of being, while encouraging those around him to forge a Jewish identity loyal to the past and empowered to rise to the challenges of the present.
DOI:
10.1163/1477285x-12341352
URL:
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