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February 12, 2018

The Faith of a Holocaust Survivor

Jewish belief is “coherent” only to those who experience it viscerally.

In an exploration of traditional Jewish belief, Moshe Koppel explores the worldview of “Shimen,” an archetypal figure based on someone Koppel knew in his youth. Growing up in an East European ḥasidic community, Shimen came to America after the Shoah, in which his two children were murdered by the Nazis. Koppel writes:

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