Orthodox Jewish theology 1945-1948: responses to the Holocaust

Traditional Jewish thinkers' basic beliefs remain unaffected by the Holocaust, including those enunciated before the catastrophe by the sages of Lublin and after Kristallnacht by Wassermann and others. The Holocaust does not undermine their abiding faith in the eternality of God and Torah, and God's covenental tie to Israel throughout history. Nor does geographical distance, nor the shattering of the communal context.