Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
4,4 (1989) 413-433
Keywords:
Teichthal, Yissakhar Shlomo,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Examines the book written by Rabbi Teichthal in Budapest between January-December 1943. Teichthal, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi and Jewish communal leader, was deported to Auschwitz and died in January 1945 in a cattle car transporting Auschwitz inmates westward. The book deals with the calamities of the Holocaust and its lessons. Teichthal accuses the ultra-Orthodox leadership in Europe of having accepted the condition of exile, and of being responsible for many of the Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust. He calls for a "tikkun", or reconstruction of the Jewish people, with the Land of Israel playing a central role. His rejection of a passive belief in supernatural intervention, and its replacement by an activist Zionist standpoint, marks a change in Teichthal's thinking, as he was previously opposed to settlement in Eretz Israel, and also marks a major break with ultra-Orthodox Jewish theology.
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