Irving J. Rosenbaum, ‘The Holocaust and Halakhah’

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Sociology 19:1. Irving J. Rosenbaum, The Holocaust and Halakhah, x + 177 pp., The Library of Jewish Law and Ethics (Norman Lamm, ed.), Ktav Publishing House, New York, 1976, $12.50. Halakhah, from the root halakh (‘to go’, ‘to walk’) is the Jewish way, the detailed pattern of behaviour according to…