Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust

Name: Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust
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ISBN: 9780679720430

ISBN-10: 067972043X

ISBN-13: 9780679720430

Edition: N/A

Authors: Yaffa Eliach

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Derived by the author from interviews and oral histories, these eighty-nine original Hasidic tales about the Holocaust provide unprecedented witness, in a traditional idiom, to the victims' inner experience of "unspeakable" suffering. This volume constitutes the first collection of original Hasidic tales to be published in a century. "An important work of scholarship and a sudden clear window onto the heretofore sealed world of the Hasidic reaction to the Holocaust. Its true stories and fanciful miracle tales are a profound and often poignant insight into the souls of those who suffered terribly at the hands of the Nazis and who managed somehow to use that very suffering as the raw…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/26/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.99" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English