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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 material for their renewed lives.' -- Chaim Potok

'A beautiful collection.' -- Saul Bellow

'Yaffa Eliach provides us with stories that are wonderful and terrible -- true myths. We learn how people, when suffering dying, and surviving can call forth their humanity with starkness and clari

Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust The First Original

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/10/1988
      ISBN13: 9780679720430, 978-0679720430
      ISBN10: 067972043X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 material for their renewed lives.' -- Chaim Potok

      'A beautiful collection.' -- Saul Bellow

      'Yaffa Eliach provides us with stories that are wonderful and terrible -- true myths. We learn how people, when suffering dying, and surviving can call forth their humanity with starkness and clari

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