"This enormous offense to the Torah"

Hershkowitz, Isaac, 1977-
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Title "This enormous offense to the Torah" : new discoveries about the controversy over the escape of the Rabbis from Budapest, 1943-1944.
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 37,1 (2009) 109-136
Description Discusses reactions in Hungary to the escape of some hasidic rabbis, particularly Rabbi Aharon Rokach of Belz and his brother Rabbi Mordechai Rokach of Bilgoray, in winter 1943-44. Focuses on an essay in a memorial issue in spring 1944 of the Hungarian rabbinical journal "Tel Talpiyot", probably written by Meshulam Zalman Katzburg, the son of the journal's editor until 1936, David Zvi Katzburg. The essay, entitled "Va-yehi bi-nesoah" ("And It Shall Be When They Travel"), strongly criticizes the hasidic rabbis for leaving their followers to suffer in the Holocaust without leaders, and for preventing their followers from emigrating to Eretz Israel before the Holocaust. Notes that this essay was published in two other journals in the same year. Discusses, also, post-Holocaust criticism of the rabbis who escaped, especially by Avigdor Katzburg, the brother of Meshulam Zalman. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
English and Hebrew.
Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
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