Creator Bio
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
1889–1943
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira was an educator and Hasidic master who, beginning in 1913, served as the rabbi of Piascezno, Poland; in 1923, he founded Yeshiva Da‘at Moshe, a major Hasidic yeshiva in Warsaw. Shapira transcribed and translated his weekly sermons, which he delivered to his followers in the Warsaw ghetto and bequeathed to the Oyneg Shabes archive. He perished in the Trawniki camp near Lublin.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Holy Fire
<i>The Holy Fire</i>, one of the greatest examples of religious resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, explores a theological explanation for Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.