Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Michael; on the History of the Jews in the Diaspora
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (2000) 59-94
Schlagwort(e):
Mizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi
;
Agudat Yiśraʼel
;
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Orthodox Judaism
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Kurzfassung:
Examines the wartime and immediate postwar responses to the Holocaust of two prominent Mizrahi thinkers in America, Aharon Halevi Petshenik (1904-1965?) and Gedaliah Bublick (1877-1948), as well as of a cohort of thinkers representing the Agudat Israel school of thought. Petshenik regarded the Holocaust as an era of pre-messianic suffering, while Bublick saw it as a continuation of the struggle between Esau and Jacob. For both of them, the Land of Israel was essential to the process of redemption, and the Holocaust could have been avoided had Jews returned to their land in time. For the Agudat Israel scholars, the Holocaust was not only the result of actions by the realm of Esau, but also the product of Israel's neglect of the Torah. The failure to restore the land was regarded as irrelevant to the Holocaust. Nonetheless, the Agudah thinkers did not reject the restoration of the land after the war, but they hoped that postwar Jews would return to the Torah.
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