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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1999 13(1):62-89; doi:10.1093/hgs/13.1.62
© 1999 by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Yehudah Leb Gerst's Religious "Ascent" Through the Holocaust

Gershon Greenberg

American University

Yehudah Leb Gerst was one of a handful of Orthodox Jews whose writings on the Holocaust extended from the interwar period through the establishment of the state of Israel. Gerst's work stretched from the prediction of impending catastrophe he foresaw already in pre-war Poland, through his experiences in ghetto, camp, D. P. internment, and Palestinian emigration. Gerst's through synthesized two main strands: his spiritual commitment to a mythic "Sinai morality"; and his post-Enlightenment, Jewish-historical world view. Having examined Gerst's personal experiences and intellectual evolution, this article reveals how his philosophical outlook would one day face new challenges in the secular realities of a Jewish state.


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