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Jewish Preaching in Times of War, 1800 - 2001

Marc Saperstein

Abstract

Wartime sermons reveal how Jews perceive themselves in relation to the majority society and how Jewish and national values are reconciled when the fate of a nation is at stake. They also illustrate how rabbis guide their communities through the challenges of their times. The sermons reproduced here were delivered by American and British rabbis from across the Jewish spectrum from the Napoleonic Wars to the attacks of 9/11. Each sermon is prefaced by a comprehensive introduction explaining the context in which it was delivered. Detailed notes explain allusions unfamiliar to a present-day reader ... More

Keywords: wartime sermons, rabbis, modern Jewish preaching, modern Jewish history, Jewish religious leaders

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9781906764401
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: February 2021 DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9781906764401.001.0001

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Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Marc Saperstein, author

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Epigraph

Dedication

Preface

Note on Editorial Practice

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Part I The Wars of the Napoleonic Era

Chapter One A Penitential Sermon

Chapter Two A Sermon

Chapter Three Fast-Day Sermon

Gershom Mendes Seixas

Part II The Wars of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Chapter Four God Protects Our Fatherland

David Woolf Marks

Chapter Five A Sermon Delivered on the Day of Prayer

M. J. Michelbacher

Chapter Six A Sermon on the National Fast-Day

Sabato Morais

Chapter Seven Fast-Day Sermon

Samuel Myer Isaacs

Chapter Eight Two Civil War Sermons

David Einhorn

Chapter Nine The Fall of the Second French Empire

Isaac Mayer Wise

Chapter Ten The War

Benjamin Artom

Chapter Eleven Thanksgiving Day Sermon

Sabato Morais

Part III The Wars of the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter Twelve The Plague of Inconsistency

H. Pereira Mendes

Chapter Thirteen A Time of War, and A Time of Peace

Joseph Krauskopf

Chapter Fourteen Judaism and War

Hermann Adler

Part IV The First World War

Chapter Fifteen On the Terrible War of 5675

George (Gedaliah) Silverstone

Chapter Sixteen Christmas and War

Morris Joseph

Chapter Seventeen Through Darkness and Death Unto Light

Joseph H. Hertz

Chapter Eighteen A Time for War, and A Time for Peace

J. Leonard Levy

Chapter Nineteen Can we Win the War without Losing America?

Stephen S. Wise

Chapter Twenty Nationalism Within Bounds

Hermann Gollancz

Chapter Twenty-One The Lure of Peace

Leo M. Franklin

Part V The Second World War

Chapter Twenty-Two America’s Hour of Decision

Abraham H. Feinberg

Chapter Twenty-Three God in the Blackout

Jacob Philip Rudin

Chapter Twenty-Four Two Second World War Sermons

Eliezer Berkovits

Chapter Twenty-Five Blackout: How Long, O Lord, How Long?

Maurice N. Eisendrath

Chapter Twenty-Six Is it Death or Rebirth of the World that we Behold?

Israel H. Levinthal

Chapter Twenty-Seven The United States is at War

Ferdinand M. Isserman

Chapter Twenty-Eight Civilian Morale

Joseph H. Hertz

Chapter Twenty-Nine The Individual in the Crisis

Walter Wurzburger

Chapter Thirty The Birth of a New Freedom

Roland B. Gittelsohn

Part VI Wars of the Later Twentieth Century

Chapter Thirty-One Two Vietnam War Sermons

Roland B. Gittelsohn

Chapter Thirty-Two The Falklands Crisis

Colin Eimer

Chapter Thirty-Three The Morality of Warfare

Immanuel Jakobovits

Part VII Responses to 9/11

Chapter Thirty-Four Three Sermons Responding to the Events of 11 September 2001

End Matter

Source Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index of Passages Cited

General Index