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| Born | Yoel Rappel |
| Alma mater | Boston University, Ph.D. |
| Occupation | historian |
Yoel Rappel, also known as Joel Rappel, is an Israeli historian who specializes in the study of Jewish history and the evolution of Jewish prayer.
Yoel Rappel | |
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| Born | Yoel Rappel |
| Alma mater | Boston University, Ph.D. |
| Occupation | historian |
Yoel Rappel, also known as Joel Rappel, is an Israeli historian who specializes in the study of Jewish history and the evolution of Jewish prayer.
Rappel is the son of Israeli historian Dov Rappel and grew up on Kibbutz Yavneh. [1]
Rappel received his Ph.D. in Jewish history and rabbinic literature from Boston University. In addition to teaching at Boston University, Rappel has taught at Bet Berl College and the Avshalom Institute for Israel Studies. He has published 29 books and edited 80 academic articles. As a fellow at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University, Rappel specializes in the study of Jewish history and the evolution of Jewish prayer. [2] [2] He previously worked for 40 years as a journalist and senior program editor at the Israel Broadcasting Authority. [2]
In 2018, Rappel's research confirmed that Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel and the grandfather of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, wrote the Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel, settling a decades-long academic dispute over the prayer's authorship. Rappel's findings were corroborated by the National Library of Israel. [3]
In 2009, Boston University professor Elie Wiesel, arguably the most famous Holocaust survivor, asked Rappel to organize and manage his archive, which contained approximately one million documents. [4] Over 7 years, Rappel curated the archive. [4] Rappel was also the Hebrew editor for Wiesel's books. [2]
Rappel discovered a never-published Hebrew-language version Night , Wiesel's famous memoir about his experiences during the Holocaust. The archived version included harsh criticisms of Jews who were too optimistic about the future, Jewish leaders who did not speak up, and Wiesel's Hungarian neighbors who "joyously watched the Jews" being deported. These were not included in the originally published 1960 version. [4]
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Holocaust theology is a body of theological and philosophical debate concerning the role of God in the universe in light of the Holocaust of the late 1930s and early 1940s. It is primarily found in Judaism. Jews were killed in higher proportions than other groups; some scholars limit the definition of the Holocaust to the Jewish victims of the Nazis as Jews alone were targeted for the Final Solution. One third of the total worldwide Jewish population were killed during the Holocaust. The Eastern European Jewish population was particularly hard hit, being reduced by ninety percent. While a disproportionate number of Jewish religious scholars were killed, more than eighty percent of the world's total, the perpetrators of the Holocaust did not merely target religious Jews. A large percentage of the Jews killed both in Eastern and Western Europe were either nonobservant or had not received even an elementary level of Jewish education.
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Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah, known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah and in English as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Holocaust Day, is observed as Israel's day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and for the Jewish resistance in that period. In Israel, it is a national memorial day. The first official commemorations took place in 1951, and the observance of the day was anchored in a law passed by the Knesset in 1959. It is held on the 27th of Nisan, unless the 27th would be adjacent to the Jewish Sabbath, in which case the date is shifted by a day.
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Yehuda Bauer is a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (1990) has been called "the most recognized reference book on the Holocaust". It was published in an English-language translated edition by Macmillan in tandem with the Hebrew language original edition published by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Remembrance Authority in Israel. All its contributors are reputable Holocaust scholars and academics. Although the encyclopedia is easy to read and use and contains no disturbing pictures, it is not recommended for users younger than high school age.
Slomó Köves is a leading Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of EMIH an affiliate of Chabad-Lubavitch in Hungary which is led by rabbi Baruch Oberlander.
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Martyrdom in Judaism is one of the main examples of Jews doing a kiddush Hashem, a Hebrew term which means "sanctification of [the] name". An example of this is public self-sacrifice in accordance with Jewish practice and identity, with the possibility of being killed for no other reason than being Jewish. There are specific conditions in Jewish law that deal with the details of self-sacrifice, be it willing or unwilling.
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