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Song of the Murdered Jewish People
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And thus it came to pass, and this was the beginning . . . Heavens tell me, why? Tell me, why this, O why? What have we done to merit such disgrace? The earth is dumb and…

Contributor:

Yitshak Katzenelson

Places:

Vittel, German Military Administration in Occupied France (Vittel, France)

Date:

1944

Subjects:

Afterlife, Holocaust, Theology, Death, Apostasy

Categories:

Poetry, Literature, Theology
God of Mercy
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O God of Mercy Choose— another people. We are tired of death, tired of corpses, We have no more prayers. Choose— another people. We have run out of blood For victims, Our houses have been turned into…

Contributor:

Kadya Molodovsky

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Date:

1945

Subjects:

Theology, Holocaust, Prayer, Death, Jewish identity

Categories:

Poetry, Literature, Theology
Tractate: The Onset of the Messiah
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4. [ . . . ] The Gaon of Vilna writes [in his Even Shelemah] that the second chapter of Vayishla? is the chapter of the “footsteps of the Messiah.” When Jacob returned from his…

Contributor:

Elhanan Wasserman

Places:

Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1938

Subjects:

Holocaust, Antisemitism, Violence, Theology, Nazis

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology, Rabbinic Commentary
To Mend the World
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What is a Jew? Who is a Jew? After this catastrophe, what is a Jew’s relation to the Jewish past? We resume our original question as we turn from one rupture in post-Holocaust Jewish existence—of the…

Contributor:

Emil L. Fackenheim

Places:

Toronto, Canada

Date:

1982

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Philosophy, Theology, Holocaust, Martyrdom

Categories:

Political Culture, Religion & Theology, Theology