Jewish mystical thought (Kabbalah) through the Holocaust

Explores the wartime and and immediate postwar writing of Jewish Kabbalists attempting not only to absorb the Nazi genocide of the Jews into the continuum of Jewish meaning and theology but also to engage with the contemporary crisis. Within the framework of Jewish religious thought of the 1930s and 1940s, Greenberg's work insists that these complex documents be integrated into the study of the Holocaust