Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945
Sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against the ever-growing oppression of European Jews. No other book has presented such abundant evidence of rabbis in all streams of Jewish religious life seeking to rouse their congregants to full awareness of the catastrophic realities taking shape in the world beyond their synagogues.
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Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945
Sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against the ever-growing oppression of European Jews. No other book has presented such abundant evidence of rabbis in all streams of Jewish religious life seeking to rouse their congregants to full awareness of the catastrophic realities taking shape in the world beyond their synagogues.
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Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945

Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945

by Marc Saperstein
Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945

Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933-1945

by Marc Saperstein

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Sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against the ever-growing oppression of European Jews. No other book has presented such abundant evidence of rabbis in all streams of Jewish religious life seeking to rouse their congregants to full awareness of the catastrophic realities taking shape in the world beyond their synagogues.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780878201600
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Publication date: 06/15/2018
Pages: 1111
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 2.80(d)

About the Author

Marc Saperstein is professor emeritus of Jewish history at George Washington University and professor of Jewish history and homiletics at Leo Baeck College.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations, and a Note on Style Introduction Chronological Selectiions Sermons from 1932 Sermons from 1933 Sermons from 1934 Sermons from 1935 Sermons from 1936 Sermons from 1937 Sermons from 1938 Sermons from 1939 Sermons from 1940 Sermons from 1941 Sermons from 1942 Sermons from 1943 Sermons from 1944 Sermons from 1945 Complete Sermons 1932 (Prelude) Jacob Xenob Cohen, "The Menace of Hitlerism to American Jewry," Free Synagogue, New York 1933 Harry Joshua Stern, "Hitlerism, Germany and Civilization," Temple Emanu-El, Montreal, Mass Rally. Israel Levinthal, "Old Pharaoh in Modern Garb," Brooklyn Jewish Center, NY Jacob P. Rudin, "Dark Horizons - 1933," Temple Beth-El, Great Neck, NY 1934 Harold I. Saperstein, "The Call to Battle," Temple Emanu-El of Lynbrook, NY 1935 Ferdinand Isserman, "My Second Visit to Nazi Germany," Temple Israel, St. Louis, MO 1936 Abba Hillel Silver, "But Mordecai Bowed Not Down," The Temple, Cleveland, OH 1937 Israel Mattuck, "The Church Conflict in Germany," Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London 1938 Abraham Mayer Heller, "A Peoples Voice is Silenced," Flatbush Jewish Centre, Brooklyn, NY Tobias (Tuviah) Geffen, "Sermon on .ayyei Sarah 5699, at the Time of the Great Destruction of the Jews in Germany at the Hands of the Evil Oppressor, Hitler, May his name and his Memory be Blotted Out," Congregation Shearith Yisrael, Atlanta, GA 1939 Julius Cohn, "Farewell Sermon (Abschiedspredigt), Ulm Congregation" Ignaz Maybaum, "The Anniversary of November 10," Brondesbury Synagogue, London 1940 Leo Franklin, "Is This the End?" Temple Beth-El, Detroit, MI 1941 Eliezer Berkovits, "Because of Our Sins?" United Hebrew Congregation, Leeds, England 1942 Yitzhak Katz, "Things I Intended to Say ... ," Conference of Jewish Social Self-Help (Zy-dowska Samapomoc Spolczna, ZSS), Warsaw Ghetto Michael Elton (formerly Emil Ehrnthal), "The Death Camps," Intercession Service, Day of Fast and Mourning, Bedford, England 1943 Bertram Korn, "The Prayer for Life," Shaarei Shomayim, Mobile, AL Akiba Predmesky, "The Ark of G-D Has Been Taken," Jewish Center of Williamsbridge, Bronx, NY 1944 Joseph Hertz, "The Battle of Warsaw," Bevis Marks Synagogue, London Louis I. Newman, "The Cup of Fury," Congregation Rodeph Sholom, New York 1945 Abraham Cohen, "Peace Celebration," Birmingham Hebrew Congregation, England Sources and Bibliography Rabbis Cited Index
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