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FREE HASIDIC TALES OF THE HOLOCAUST: THE FIRST ORIGINAL HASIDIC TALES IN A CENTURY PDF Yaffa Eliach | 266 pages | 26 Sep 1998 | Random House USA Inc | 9780679720430 | English | New York, United States Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffa Eliach: | : Books Look Inside. This volume constitutes the first collection of original Hasidic tales to be published in a century. 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. 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. Lifton "In the extensive literature on the Holocaust, this is a unique book. Yaffa Eliach has done a superb job. When Yaffa Eliach was only four years old, she survived the Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust: The First Original Hasidic Tales in a Century massacres Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust: The First Original Hasidic Tales in a Century Jews in her Lithuanian hometown. Her mission was to document… More about Yaffa Eliach. Its true stories and fanciful 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. When you buy a book, we donate a book. Sign in. Oct 26, ISBN Add to Cart. Also available from:. Jun 01, ISBN Available from:. Paperback —. Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Related Articles. Looking for More Great Reads? Download Hi Res. LitFlash The eBooks you want at the lowest prices. Read it Forward Read it first. Pass it on! Stay in Touch Sign up. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later. Become a Member Start earning points for buying books! Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust | Eichlers 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. Reading this collection of Holocaust memories is a searing yet uplifting experience. Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust. Yaffa Eliach. 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. 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. We learn how people, when suffering dying, and surviving can call forth their humanity with starkness and clarity. She employs her scholarly gifts Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust: The First Original Hasidic Tales in a Century to connect the tellers of the tales, who bear witness, to the reader who is stunned and enriched. 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. A historical and spiritual masterpiece. As an adult, she dedicated herself to the study and memorialization of the Holocaust and its victims. Her mission was to document the lives of the victims, not just their deaths, and restore their humanity. Professor Eliach spent 15 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust: The First Original Hasidic Tales in a Century her quest to document the lives of almost everyone who was killed in her childhood shtetl. She did this by collecting photographs, diaries, and letters while traveling to all 50 states and a number of foreign countries. Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust Holocaust Studies. Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffa Eliach Yaffa Eliach May 31, [a] — November 8, [2] was an American historian, author, and scholar of Judaic studies and the Holocaust. Inshe founded the Center for Holocaust Studies, Documentation and Research in Brooklyn, New York[3] [4] which collected over 2, audio interviews of Holocaust survivors as well as thousands of physical artifacts. Following the Soviet takeover inher father became involved with the Soviet authorities. Soon thereafter, her father again became involved with the Soviet authorities. According to her story, after being discovered in their hiding place, her mother stepped out of the closet holding her brother and asked to be shot prior to the baby. Her request was refused; the baby was shot with 9 bullets and her mother with Eliach survived when her mother's body fell back into the closet on top of her and concealed her. Eliach emigrated to Palestine inand later to the United States in In Israel, she attended Kfar Batya. At that time her Hebrew last name was Ben Shemesh. Yaffa married the principal of the institution, David Eliach, and became a history teacher in the school while still a teenager. In the school, she met a student, Izhak Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust: The First Original Hasidic Tales in a Century who was three years younger. According to Izhak, Yaffa was a most positive, talented and gifted student. Eliach received her B. FromEliach served as a professor of history and literature in the department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College. She created a course on Hasidism and the Holocaust, and she found that many of her students were the children of Holocaust survivors, liberators, or Holocaust survivors themselves. She began requiring students to record audio interviews with Holocaust survivors in their community as a course assignment. InEliach established the Center for Holocaust Studies to serve as a repository for these interviews. Initially housed at the Yeshiva of Flatbushthe Center grew to include a professional staff, over 2, interviews, and thousands of physical objects donated by Holocaust survivors. Inthe Center merged with the Museum of Jewish Heritagewhere its oral history collection, objects, and institutional archives are now housed. Eliach served as a member of President Jimmy Carter 's Commission on the Holocaust in and accompanied his fact-finding mission to Eastern Europe in She was a frequent lecturer at numerous conferences and educational venues and has appeared on television several times in documentaries and interviews. Eliach devoted herself to the preservation of memory of the Holocaust from a survivor's vantage point. She preserved her memories via lecture on video and audiocassettes, and her research provided much material used in courses on the Holocaust in the United States. In memory of her hometown, Eliach created the "Tower of Life", a permanent exhibit that contains approximately 1, photos of Jews in Eishyshok before the arrival of the Germans for the U. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D. She has 14 grandchildren, including Itamar Rosensweig. Derived 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. According to Chaim PotokHasidic Tales is "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. 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. John Radzilowski in his review of the book states that although sections of the book on everyday Jewish contain useful and important ethnographic information for history of the Jewish people, when Eliach discusses general east European history, the history of Polish-Jewish relations, and Second World War, the work contains many errors. Sometimes she relies on sources, only to criticize them later for not backing her up. In his view, it is a flaw that she relies on Soviet interrogations as a source of historic information. In summary, he states that the fact that Elliach is writing on such difficult subject as the Holocaust, "raises troubling questions about her motives" [22]. Eliach's eyewitness testimony was published and widely disseminated in a New York Times op-ed, in which she said she was a victim of a pogrom by Poles and the Polish Home Armyher mother and baby brother shot multiple times as they stepped out of a closet they were hiding in, with Eliach surviving underneath her mother's body that had fallen back down on her in the closet. Eliach claimed that prior to the attack, the Polish commander outside the houses concluded his order with what she claims was a popular Home Army slogan "Poland without Jews". Israeli historian Israel Gutman criticized Eliach stating "I don't have sympathy for this author; she's not an authority on Holocaust, and her books haven't been translated to Hebrew. One shouldn't close eyes to the fact that the Home Army in the Vilnius region fought with Soviet partisans for the liberation of Poland.