{"id":1656,"date":"2017-09-07T21:09:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T21:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2017-09-07T21:09:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T21:09:18","slug":"is-broken-faith-still-faith-reflections-on-the-final-sermons-of-rabbi-kalonymous-kalman-shapira-of-the-warsaw-ghetto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/2017\/09\/07\/is-broken-faith-still-faith-reflections-on-the-final-sermons-of-rabbi-kalonymous-kalman-shapira-of-the-warsaw-ghetto\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Broken Faith Still Faith? Reflections on the Final Sermons of Rabbi Kalonymous Kalman Shapira of the Warsaw Ghetto (4\/11\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong style=\"font-family: inherit\">April 11th at 7 p.m.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1657 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/schulman-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/schulman-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/schulman-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/schulman.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira was considered one of the great heroes of the Warsaw ghetto, shepherding his flock of broken Jews as the ghetto turned increasingly into the nightmare it became. As time went on, the elasticity of Shapira\u2019s own faith was tested as he began to realize that faith in God\u2019s covenant became harder and harder to defend. In his final sermons, he reached the very precipice of his own faith. In a final insert in November 1942 to a sermon he delivered in the winter of 1941 \u2014 the last thing we have from him in writing \u2014 Shapira arguably opened the door to what would later became post-Holocaust theology. In this presentation, Dr. Shaul Magid, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University, will explore the last sermons of this great master as the world collapsed around him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shaul Magid is a professor of Jewish Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. His works have included\u00a0<em>Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica and Radzin Hasidism<\/em>\u00a0(University of Wisconsin Press, 2003),\u00a0\u00a0<em>From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala<\/em>\u00a0(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008),\u00a0\u00a0<em>American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society<\/em>\u00a0(Indiana University Press, 2013) and\u00a0<em>Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism<\/em>\u00a0(Stanford University Press, 2014).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1665 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/shaul-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/shaul-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/shaul-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/shaul-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wpfsx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2017\/09\/shaul.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11th at 7 p.m. Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life R. Kalonymous Kalman Shapira was considered one of the great heroes of the Warsaw ghetto, shepherding his flock of broken Jews as the ghetto turned increasingly into the nightmare it became. 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