Yosl Rakover Talks to God

Name: Yosl Rakover Talks to God
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ISBN: 9780375708404

ISBN-10: 0375708405

ISBN-13: 9780375708404

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Authors: Zvi Kolitz, Zvi Kolitz

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There are two stories here. One is the now legendary tale of a defiant Jew's refusal to abandon God, even in the face of the greatest suffering the world has known, a testament of faith that has taken on an unpredictable and fascinating life of its own and has often been thought to be a direct testament from the Holocaust. The parallel story is that of Zvi Kolitz, the true author, whose connection to Yosl Rakover has been obscured over the fifty years since its original appearance. German journalist Paul Badde tells how a young man came to write this classic response to evil, and then was nearly written out of its history. With brief commentaries by French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/10/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Kolitz was born in Lithiania. He was the son of a great Rabbi. During the war, he joined the Underground in their struggle to form the state of Israel. He has worked as a filmmaker, producer of Broadway shows and lecturer at Yeshiva University.



Foreword



Prefatory Note



Zvi Kolitz



Yossel Rakover Speaks to God



To Love the Torah More Than God



Meditations on Yossel Rakover



Second Meditation on Yossel Rakover



My Encounter with Yossel Rakover



To Believe in God "in Spite" of Him



Holocaust Challenges to Religious Faith: The Cases of Yossel Rakover, Hersh Rasseyner, and Chaim Vilner



Requiem for a Jealous Boy