This book presents the sermons of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira, The Piaseczno Rebbe, which were delivered during the Holocaust years in the Warsaw Ghetto. The second volume is a facsimile edition, with the original manuscript on one side and the detailed line-by-line presentation of the text as the Rebbe corrected it. The second volume includes the words and passages that were deleted and is printed in 4 different colors which follow the proofs and changes that the Rebbe made in the text.
Prof. Daniel Reiser heads the Department of Jewish Thought at Hertzog College. He specializes in Hasidic philosophy, modern mysticism, and theology in the Shoah. Reiser was a Matanel and a Warburg Post-Doc Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was an adjunct lecturer in the department of Jewish Thought there. He was a Yad-Vashem Post-Doc Fellow in Jerusalem and a Claims Conference Saul Kagan Post-Doc Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies, New York. His latest books are Language of Truth in the Mother Tongue: The Yiddish Sermons of Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2020); Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism (De Gruyter, 2018), and Sermons from the Years of Rage (Herzog College, The World Union of Jewish Studies and Yad Vashem, 2017).
Late Hasidism was perceived and presented in research as a movement of institutionalization and entrenchment that lost the initial Hasidic renaissance, and even degenerated. Recently there have been changes in research and more complex methods and approaches have been introduced that find characteristics unique to late Hasidim.
