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Rabbi Kalonymos Kalman Shapira: Jewish Spirituality and the Holocaust, Chanukah 1942

Rabbi Kalonymos Shapira was a Hasidic Rebbe who ran the largest yeshiva in Warsaw before World War II. During his interment in the Warsaw Ghetto, he wrote sermons that are among the very last examples of traditional Jewish scholarship ever composed in Poland, and devoted to themes of suffering and meaning in a world gone mad. In Chanukah of 1942, he realized for the first time that the Holocaust was unlike any previous persecution of the Jews; and he set about trying to respond to that calamity. His work is simultaneously more radical and more traditional than that of most post-Holocaust theologians, and his message still speaks to us today.

Date

December 8, 2012

Time

7:30 PM EST

Location

Yeshivat Or Chaim

Topics

Holocaust

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Rabbi Kalonymos Kalman Shapira: Jewish Spirituality and the Holocaust, Chanukah 1942

Rabbi Dr. Don Seeman

Program: Rabbi Kalonymos Kalman Shapira: Jewish Spirituality and the Holocaust, Chanukah 1942

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Rabbi Dr. Don Seeman

Rabbi Dr. Don Seeman is an Associate Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a joint appointment with the Department of Religion and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, and is also an instructor for both the Wexner Heritage Foundation and the Jewish Learning Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1997, and taught previously at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Don is the author of One People, One Blood: Ethiopian-Israelis and the Return…

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