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Agony in the Pulpit - Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945 (Hardcover)
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Agony in the Pulpit - Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945 (Hardcover)
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Many scholars have focused on contemporary sources pertaining to
the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Jews between 1933 and
1945--citing dated documents, newspapers, diaries, and letters--but
the sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against
the ever-growing oppression of European Jews have been largely
neglected. Agony in the Pulpit is a response to this neglect, and
to the accusations made by respected figures that Jewish leaders
remained silent in the wake of catastrophe. The passages from
sermons reproduced in this volume--delivered by 135 rabbis in
fifteen countries, mainly from the United States and
England--provide important evidence of how these rabbis
communicated the ever-worsening news to their congregants,
especially on important religious occasions when they had peak
attendance and peak receptivity. A central theme is how the
preachers related the contemporary horrors to ancient examples of
persecution. Did they present what was occurring under Hitler as a
reenactment of the murderous oppressions by Pharaoh, Amalek, Haman,
Ahasuerus, the Crusaders, the Spanish Inquisition, the Russian
Pogroms? When did they begin to recognize and articulate from their
pulpits an awareness that current events were fundamentally
unprecedented? Was the developing cataclysm consistent with
traditional beliefs about God's control of what happened on earth?
No other book-length study has presented such abundant evidence of
rabbis in all streams of Jewish religious life seeking to rouse and
inspire their congregants to full awareness of the catastrophic
realities that were taking shape in the world beyond their
synagogues.
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