[Avodah] Letter of RSRH

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Joseph C. Kaplan <jkaplan at tenzerlunin.com>
wrote:

>  "TK:  Both you and SBA insisted that Hirsch would have been Neturei
> Karta or
> Satmar in his attitude towards the modern Israeli state if he  were alive
> today.  I am certain that is NOT true.  He would have been  RWO,
> non-Zionist but
> would have viewed developments in E'Y as overwhelmingly  positive and a
> sign of
> Divine benevolence."
>
> I simply don't understand how anyone can predict how the Holocaust and the
> actual creation of the State of Israel would have affected RSRH's thinking
> about Zionism.  One can as easily say that he would have become the Honorary
> President of Mizrachi as say that he would be NT, Satmar or RWO.  Oh, sorry,
> that was a different gadol who switched from being a member of the presidium
> of Agudah to the Honorary President of Mizrachi after the Holocaust.
>
> Joseph Kaplan
>
>
I cannot speak for certain as to wWhat RSRH MIGHT have done that is
speucalation.

What I can say for certain is that his grandson Rav Jospeh Breuer was
virulently Anti-Zionist -almost as much as Satmar was.  I would venture to
say that his Brother R. Isaac Breuer might have been far leas anti-Zionist
[irc he was a founder/leader of Poalei Agudah]

I see little evidence that RSRH would have taken a pro-Zionist stance. Then
again, I would venture to say that if had lived during the Nazi ysv regime
he might have dropped Austrit.  AISI the Holocaust changed a  lot of minds
about a lot of things.


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