Out of the Inferno
Subtitle: The Efforts That Led to the Rescue of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn of Lubavitch from War Torn Europe in 1939-40
Contributors: Rachel Altein (Editor); Eliezer Y. Zaklikofsky (Editor); Israel Jacobson (Editor)
Publisher: Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
Published: July 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780826606839
Subjects: Historical - General; Schneersohn, Joseph Isaac,; Jewish - General; Biography/Autobiography; Sources; Biography; Poland; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); History / Holocaust; Hasidim; Religious; World War, 1939-1945; Schneersohn, Joseph Isaac; Otwock; Rabbis; 1880-1950
First sentence: While still a young man, in the city of Lubavitch, White Russia, the Rebbe was entrusted by his father, the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shalom Dovber Schaneersohn to represent the Chabad-Lubavitch movement at many Rabbinical conferences, at which great, distinguished spiritual leaders of European Jewry met to discuss the serious problems facing their communities: pogroms, often encouraged and/or tolerated by the authorities, vicious discriminatory edicts; efforts from within and without to wean Jews from their faith, etc.