Yaffa EliachCritiques

I had never read about the Holocaust from a Hasidic perspective before, and was glad I found this book. Moving, healing, and not the usual way accounts from the Holocaust are told.

Very nice, interesting, full of warmth, authentic!!
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A detailed, meticulously researched, and sobering account of one village's rich history and heritage and ultimate destruction in the Holocaust. Has many interesting individuals coupled with photographs and is a book that has a strong impact on any reader regardless of background. The compelling interest and life's work of the author. Long narrative, but never seems so because of the subject and the author's skill. Have read the twice.

"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." Chiam Potok From back cover of the book.

NO OF PAGES: 266 SUB CAT I: Fiction SUB CAT II: Holocaust SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: 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 ReinharzNOTES: Purchased from the Amazon Marketplace. SUBTITLE: The First Original Hasidic Tales in a Century

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

NO OF PAGES: 818 SUB CAT I: Holiness SUB CAT II: European Jews SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Professor Yaffa Eliach, whose haunting collection of photographs at the Holocaust Memorial Museum gave faces to a murdered people, has written the history of that people. Eliach's nine-century saga of Eastern European Jewish life is richer and fuller than any ever written. Her research took her from family attics on six continents to state archives no scholar had seen since the start of the Cold War. Confronted with the near disappearance of the world of the shtetl, Eliach was indefatigable in her search for the truth--of a people, a place, a culture.NOTES: SUBTITLE: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok