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To Live with Hope, to Die with Dignity
To Live with Hope, To Die with Dignity, based principally on materials created and activities conducted in the ghettos of Warsaw, Vilna, Lodz, Kovno, during the Holocaust, concerns itself with the stories of spiritual resistance during the Holocaust. Side by side with unspeakable persecution, suffering, and death were those who sought to rise above their calamitous situation.
To Live with Hope, to Die with Dignity
Surveys the phenomenon of Jewish spiritual survival during the Holocaust in the framework of the Jewish urge to sanctify God through the affirmation of life ("Kiddush ha-hayyim") rather than through martyrdom ("Kiddush Hashem"). Describes the historical development of the concept of "Kiddush ha-hayyim." Ch. 2 (pp. 29-42), "The Ghetto as a Tool for Extermination, " summarizes the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews, and its implementation in the Kovno, Lodz, Vilna, and Warsaw ghettos. Discusses cultural, religious, literary, artistic, and political activities in these ghettos, designed to raise morale and help Jews to survive and live a meaningful existence.
Rabbinic Authority
Prominent rabbis from both the pulpit and academia examine how the rabbinate is affected by halacha, personal charisma, semichah, Reform minhag and the rabbi's own religious views.
The Defining Decade
Gil Troy, Professor of History, McGill University --
An Archive of the Catastrophe
Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary. Claude Lanzmann’s 1985 magnum opus, Shoah, is a canonical documentary on the Holocaust—and in film history. Over the course of twelve years, Lanzmann gathered 230 hours of location filming and interviews with survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators, which he condensed into a 9½-hour film. The unused footage was scattered and inaccessible for years before it was restored and digitized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In An Archive of the Catastrophe, Jennifer Cazenave presents the first comprehensive study of this collection. She argues that the...
Timeless Tablets
Are the Ten Commandments absolute or conditional? Is idolatry still a problem for contemporary people? Does a child have an obligation to honor an abusive or selfish parent? Is assisted suicide a form of murder? Does the spirit of capitalism contradict the commandment against coveting? This book discusses the most quoted section of the Bible in the context of today's complicated moral issues, and from the perspective of the Sages of the Jewish tradition. It shows how ten simple utterances are both timely and timeless.
