Introduction to David Weiss Halivni's "Prayer in the Shoah". From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought | Date: June 22, 2001| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2001 American Jewish Congress. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT testimonies on record of the theological consequences of the Shoah. It is a wrenching, troubling and yet tragically affirmative account of what it means to have prayed in the camps and to pray again today. The context for this testimony is noteworthy in itself. As Professor Halivni explains in the beginning of his essay, Yad Vashem had asked him to write the piece to introduce their publication of the High Holiday Machzor used in the Wolfsberg concentration camp (and that had been transcribed for that purpose by the Satmar Cantor ...

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