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PAGE 12 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 21, 1986
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Worlds Torn Asunder, by Dov
Herd Edelstein, KTA \ Publishing
House. Hoboken, X.J., $12.95
Reviewed by
Dr. Philip Wendkos
Atlanta. I9K6. High-tech, punk
rock, hedonism, crime, spoiled
youth, controlled diets, physical
fitness, lots of money to be made
and to spend, relative security,
smiling faces, insured survival,
arrogance, few children receiving
an intensive Jewish education
based on tradition and Halacha.
Auschwitz, 1944. Grimness,
bleak future, preparing oneself to
die, subsisting on bread crumbs
and inferior food, doing without
necessities, subjugation, imposed
feeling of inferioi ity, no ego nor id
allowed to be asserted, sickness,
submission, a majority of Jews
who speak Yiddish and know tra
ditional Jewish sources and love
Judaism.
What a contrast! Can the aver
age Jew of today (who was not a
victim of the Holocaust) begin to
comprehend what it was like to be
trapped in the web of the Nazi net?
To be brutally assaulted in a crimi
nal way just because one happens
to be Jewish? To be separated in a
brutal and painful way—from
brother, sister, parent, child at the
arrival of an infamous concentra
tion camp like Auschwitz or
Bergen-Belsen?
If the horror of these frightful
situations is not something which
would interest the contemporary
Jew, then perhaps a reflection
about a world which was de-
Author’s paternal
stroyed, a dream which was a-
bruptly shattered and just what
this world was for a European Jew
would be of value for all of us.
This world included a myriad of
rabbis and rebbes, poshute yiden,
banditen, scholars, luftmenschen,
books, institutions, teachers, busi
nessmen, beggars, itinerant sellers
of goods, hazzanim, doveners,
shochtim, store owners, trades
men, smiths, artists, treggers,
yeshivot. An intensive, close-knit
Jewish life. Respect for bubbe and
Zaide, maintenance of the mikva
and the soup kitchen, a society
where the average boy of 10 in the
heder could quote a pasuk at an
appropriate occasion for a special
purpose and the prayers could be
recited “oisenveinik.” The head of
a yeshiva boy was filled with Gem-
ara, Mishneh B'rurah, Yoreh
Dayah, Oruch HaShulhan, Pose-
kim, Tosefta, She'elot Ut'shuvot,
Rashi. Ibn Ezra, Magen Avraham
the Mahara'm Shi/... while the
heart showed compassion, feeling.
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grandparents.
loving, a self-effacing and modest
personality.
Rarely has a book or work on
the Holocaust reflected this world
in its totality. Such a book, how
ever, is “Worlds Torn Asunder.”
This is due in large measure to the
fact that the author writes from the
standpoint ot a religious, obser
vant Jew who enumerates inci
dents where religious Jews attemp
ted to uphold the traditions and
rituals even under the most horri
ble circumstances.
We all know about the Holo
caust. Some of us know more than
others. This particular book will
cause us to reflect on what we
know, and it will make our appre
ciation of the survivors’ ordeals
more acute.
In my opinion, every mature
Jew should read and own this
book, in order to fulfill the impor
tant Mitzva of Zachor Mo She-
asah L'kha Amalek (Remember
what the Amalekites/Nazis did to
you as a people). Rabbi Edelstein
is to be strongly commended for
his arduous efforts in putting into
words what he experienced as a
testament to our generation in ful
filling the scriptural dictum K’tov
Zikaron Basefer (preserving what
the Amalekites did to us for the
future generations). Lo Tishkah!
You must never allow yourselves
to forget what occurred!
Autographed copies of" Worlds
Torn Asunder” may he obtained
by calling 394-1682 in the Atlanta
area.
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