Readings on Maramarosh / / Elieser Slomovic; ed. by Aryeh Cohen, Caryn Landy, Steven M. Lowenstein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Slomovic, Elieser,
• HerausgeberIn: Cohen, Aryeh,; Landy, Caryn,; Lowenstein, Steven M.,
• MitwirkendeR: Halivni, David,; Lieber, David,; Slomovic, Ephraim,; Welts, Sara Slomovic,; Wiesel, Elie,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: The Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

Since World War II, the sub-Carpathian Mountain region once known as Maramarosh has remained “Judenrein” (free of Jews). Jewish Maramarosh lives on, however, through the contributions to scholarship and humanity of Maramarosh Holocaust survivors and their progeny, including Nobel laureate Elie Weisel and the Talmud scholar Professor David Halivni-Weiss. Maramarosh Shoah survivor and Talmud scholar Professor Elieser Slomovic here provides access to a collection of responsa literature, most of it out of print and previously available only or primarily in Yiddish. Through personal queries about how to live Torah-instructed lives and rabbinic responses, the reader is invited to enter the world of Jewish Maramarosh, where Hasidism flourished and rabbinic scholarship reflected human nobility manifested through the pragmatics of poverty and the dynamics of living closely with nature. Professor Slomovic, recognizing the fluidity and balance over time provided by Talmudic thought as exemplified through rabbinic teaching, invites the reader to join the discourse on the everyday life of everyday people.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- A PERSONAL NOTE -- A NOTE OF INTRODUCTION -- READINGS ON MARAMAROSH -- 1. THE RESPONSA -- 2. EDUCATION IN MARAMAROSH -- 3. MARAMAROSH: A HISTORY -- 4. IN OTHERS’ WORDS -- 5. SLOTFINA -- REMEMBERING OUR FATHER -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHIES OF RESPONSA AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME -- GEOGRAPHIC TERMS. Official and unofficial names of regions and districts -- Language Variants of Place Names -- INDEX