The "Holy Cover": Sanctification of Yiddish in Ultra-Orthodox Judaism in the Wake of the Holocaust

Daniel Reiser is an associate professor and the chair of the department of Jewish Thought at Hertzog College. Reiser specialises in Kabbalah, Hasidism, and theology in the Shoah. His book Vision as a Mirror (2014) was awarded the World Union of Jewish Studies Matanel Prize and his book Sermons from the Years of Rage (2017) was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize. His latest books are: Language of Truth in the Mother Tongue: The Yiddish Sermons of Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (2020); ed. Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal: The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (2021), and translated to Hebrew Abraham Joshua Heschel’s 2 volumes of Kotsk: In Gerangel far Emesdikayt (2023).