One of the holy cast: Judaism and the Holocaust through the eyes of a survivor

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The 60 essays in this volume offer a unique insight into the history of the Jewish people, with special emphasis on the sufferings of European Jewry during World War II The author deals with questions and issues of the Jewish faith from various points of view. He tries to understand the miraculous survival of the Jew who, despite the continuous efforts of Greeks, Romans, Inquisitions and Nazis to eradicate him, still survives. The Jew has survived because of his stubborn refusal to discard his belief in one God and he endures because of his adherence to the law of his people. The book is divided into several parts which allow the reader to look into the six horrible years of the destruction of European Jewry. The description of the experiences during the thousand and one nights of the Holocaust are in vivid narrative. They are told to us by a religious Jew, who despite tortures and enslavement has not lost his faith, but emerged from near death at liberation to rise again to a renewed and vigorous new life in America~ - In a very unique and colorful way, we are introduced to Rabbi Avigdor�s family, as he and his wife Esther build their home upon the spiritual views of a survivor as a husband and father. Rabbi Avigdor is given a chance to become reborn and to restore the broken family chain of a hundred generations of Rabbis. The essays of the chapter �Milestones in the Family,� though strictly personal, all have a homiletically content of interest to the general public (the same is true about the chapter �Memorable People�). Other- wise they would not be published. The vast material about the Holocaust period consists of stories that are a fusion of fact and fic- tion, a description of the author�s own experiences in his fight for survival. Rabbi Avigdor�s book contributes much to our better understanding of the saddest chapter in Jewish-history, which unfortunately, not only de- stroyed one-third of our people but along with it, a vast archive of memoirs, books, annals and diaries that many of the victims recorded up to the last minute of their lives.

The 60 essays in this volume offer a unique
insight into the history of the Jewish
people, with special emphasis on the sufferings of
European Jewry during World War II

Author:Isaac C. Avigdor
Type:Hardcover
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