Volk

There was an upsurge in German nationalism.

It quietened down a little bit after the war, but then re-emerged in the 1930s, as you know, with National Socialism eventually leading to Nazism.

But the Volkisch belief, before it became entangled with the Nazi ideology, The pure folkish belief, that was something that intrigued and interested Rabbi Soloveitchik.

But let's speak a little bit about the actual belief system.

What is folkish belief, German folkish belief? So I think the best way to define it is to say that it was an anti-universalist movement.