God No Longer Lives Here

A short story — one of the most astonishing genres of Hasidic literature, a mystical movement of Eastern European Jews.

Hasidic stories tell in an accessible language about the depths of the universe — about complex, tangled relationships between people, between man and the Almighty, about the meaning of existence and the mystery of faith. 

The stories collected in this book are told by former prisoners of concentration camps. Documentary evidence has turned into literature, and from literature, historical documents have emerged.

But at the beginning of it all was a story...