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Download or read book A Jewish Quest for Religious Meaning written by Norman E. Frimer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of previously published essays. Pp. 127-135, "A Vignette of Rabbi Hillel Zeitlin and the Holocaust" [first published in "Tradition" 15 (1975)], present a profile of the Warsaw Rabbi deported to Treblinka in September 1942. Focuses on his written commentaries on the erosion of religious life in the ghetto, and his belief in religious reawakening and messianic redemption as the only way to salvation. Pp. 136-143, "'Who Is a Jew?' in the Vilna Ghetto" ["Tradition" 16 (1967)], comment on fragments from Zelig Kalmanovitsh's "Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna", written up to his death in 1943. Kalmanovitsh referred to and commented on the debates on the "Who is a Jew" question, pointing to the new implications of the issue in the tragic framework of Nazi brutality.