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A Note from the Editors of the Hebrew Union College Annual

Hebrew Union College Annual ◽

10.15650/hebruniocollannu.90.2019.00ix ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 90 ◽

pp. ix

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Union College

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Book Reviews and Review Essay

European Judaism ◽

10.3167/ej.2020.530214 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 146-156

Author(s):

Melissa Raphael ◽

Dorothea Magonet ◽

Frank Dabba Smith

Keyword(s):

Review Essay ◽

Mass Murder ◽

The Real ◽

Nazi Persecution ◽

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Tony Bayfield, Being Jewish Today: Confronting the Real Issues, Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019, £18.99 Marika Henriques, The Hidden Girl: The Journey of a Soul, Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers Ltd., 2018, £25.00 Marc Saperstein, Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933–1945, Hebrew Union College Press, 2018, $95.00

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Out of the Whirlwind Reconsidered

European Judaism ◽

10.3167/ej.2020.530202 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Michael Berkowitz

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Personal History ◽

Historical Writing ◽

Holocaust Literature ◽

The Holocaust ◽

History Of ◽

Mutual Accountability ◽

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This article argues that Albert Friedlander’s edited book, Out of the Whirlwind (1968), should be recognised as pathbreaking. Among the first to articulate the idea of ‘Holocaust literature’, it established a body of texts and contextualised these as a way to integrate literature – as well as historical writing, music, art and poetry – as critical to an understanding of the Holocaust. This article also situates Out of the Whirlwind through the personal history of Friedlander and his wife Evelyn, who was a co-creator of the book, his colleagues from Hebrew Union College, and the illustrator, Jacob Landau. It explores the work’s connection to the expansive, humanistic development of progressive Judaism in the United States, Britain and continental Europe. It also underscores Friedlander’s study of Leo Baeck as a means to understand the importance of mutual accountability, not only between Jews, but in Jews’ engagement with the wider world.

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