Torah-true & Religious Nationalist Thought Through the Holocaust

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As unprecedented, the Holocaust presented a caesura in the history of the people of Israel. But Jewish religious thought and consciousness continued throughout. We will focus on two major steams: Da-at torah (Torah-true; associate with Agudath Yisrael), for which scriptural tradition remained a source of life, even of metaphysical being; and religious nationalism (associated with Mizrahi), which held that the catastrophe implied and mandated settlement in, and restoration, of the Land of Israel for redemption. Our sources will be real-time writings representative of the two streams, in translation.