The Dangers of a Unilateral Israeli Withdrawal from the West Bank
Learning the lessons of Gaza and Lebanon.
January 26, 2017
Reading Sermons from the Warsaw Ghetto between the Lines
Kalonimos Shapiro’s hidden manuscripts.
From 1939 to 1942, Kalonimos Kalmish Shapiro, rebbe of the Ḥasidim of Piaseczno, regularly delivered Saturday-afternoon sermons in Warsaw. In 1943, he gave the manuscripts of the sermons to the Warsaw ghetto’s historian, Emmanuel Ringelblum, who hid them along with the rest of his archives in milk cans, which were located after the war. Henry Abramson notes that the manuscripts reveal Shapiro’s later editing of the sermons, changes in his thinking, and even his ambivalence on certain points. He explicates one poignant example:
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Reading Sermons from the Warsaw Ghetto between the Lines
Kalonimos Shapiro’s hidden manuscripts.
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