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Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust » (1st Vintage Books ed)

Book cover image of Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffa Eliach

Authors: Yaffa Eliach
ISBN-13: 9780679720430, ISBN-10: 067972043X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: October 1988
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed

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Author Biography: Yaffa Eliach

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 clarity. She employs her scholarly gifts only to connect the tellers of the tales, who bear witness, to the reader who is stunned and enriched." — Robert J. Lifton

"In the extensive literature on the Holocaust, this is a unique book. Through it we can attain a glimpse of the victims' inner life and spiritual resources. Yaffa Eliach has done a superb job." — Jehuda Reinharz

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Fiction Books & Literature Fiction Subjects Short Story Anthologies
Biography Historical Biographies Holocaust Biographies
Biography Religious Biography Judaism - Biography
Biography All Biography Historical Biography
Biography All Biography Peoples & Cultures - Biography
Biography All Biography Religious Biography
Christianity Judaism & Judaica Jewish Folklore
Christianity Judaism & Judaica Judaism - Biography
Christianity Judaism & Judaica Movements & Sects - Judaism
Christianity Religious Biography Judaism - Biography
Christianity All Religion General & Miscellaneous Religion
History Historical Biographies Holocaust Biographies
History Religious History General & Miscellaneous Religion
History Religious History Judaism & Judaica
History World History Jewish History
Judaism & Judaica Jewish Folklore Hasidim -> Legends and parables
Judaism & Judaica Judaism - Biography Hasidim -> Biography
Judaism & Judaica Movements & Sects - Judaism Hasidism
Nonfiction Social Sciences Folklore & Mythology
Nonfiction Social Sciences Jewish Studies
Religion Books Judaism & Judaica Jewish Folklore
Religion Books Judaism & Judaica Judaism - Biography
Religion Books Judaism & Judaica Movements & Sects - Judaism
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Science & Nature Social Sciences Folklore & Mythology
Science & Nature Social Sciences Jewish Studies
Social Sciences Folklore & Mythology Jewish Folklore
Social Sciences Jewish Studies Jewish - Biography
Social Sciences Jewish Studies Jewish History
Christianity Christianity Religious Biography
Christianity Christianity All Religion
Nonfiction Biography Historical Biographies
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Nonfiction History World History
Nonfiction Religion Religious Biography
Nonfiction Religion All Religion
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