Yehudah Leb Gerst's Religious “Ascent” Through the Holocaust
Yehudah Leb Gerst was one of a handful of Orthodox Jews whose writings on the Holocaust extended from the interwar period through the establishment of the state of Israel. Gerst's work stretched from the prediction of impending catastrophe he foresaw already in pre-war Poland, through his exper...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1999
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1999, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 62-89 |
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| Summary: | Yehudah Leb Gerst was one of a handful of Orthodox Jews whose writings on the Holocaust extended from the interwar period through the establishment of the state of Israel. Gerst's work stretched from the prediction of impending catastrophe he foresaw already in pre-war Poland, through his experiences in ghetto, camp, D. P. internment, and Palestinian emigration. Gerst's through synthesized two main strands: his spiritual commitment to a mythic “Sinai morality”; and his post-Enlightenment, Jewish-historical world view. Having examined Gerst's personal experiences and intellectual evolution, this article reveals how his philosophical outlook would one day face new challenges in the secular realities of a Jewish state. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/13.1.62 |