Format:
1 online resource (397 pages)
ISBN:
9780253050823
Series Statement:
Perspectives on Israel Studies
Uniform Title:
Peʾer taḥat efer
Content:
Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel offers a rare mix of empathy and scholarly rigor to understandings of the role that the community's collective memories and survivor mentality have played in creating Israel's national identity.
Content:
Cover -- HOLOCAUST MEMORY in ULTRAORTHODOX SOCIETY in ISRAEL -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. Formative Memory -- 1. The Ultraorthodox and the Holocaust: Catastrophe, Rupture, and Challenges -- 2. The Paths and Circles of Reconstruction -- PART II. Memory as Torture, Memory as Obligation -- 3. Why Did We Survive? -- 4. Starting New Families -- PART III. Memory as a Mobilizing Force -- 5. The Restoration of the Torah World -- 6. Du lebst mama [You Live Mother!]: The Female Survivors and the Rebirth of an Educational Network-Beit Ya'akov after the Holocaust -- 7. Myths and the Rehabilitation of Ultraorthodox Society after the Holocaust -- 8. "For Us the Past Has Not Yet Passed": Holocaust Commemoration in Ultraorthodox Society -- PART IV. Counter-Memory and Shared Memory -- 9. Is Israeli Ultraorthodox Holocaust Memory a "Counter-Memory"? -- Conclusion. Holocaust Memory in Israeli Ultraorthodox Society: The Unique and the Shared -- Appendix A. The Expansion of the Yeshivot in Eretz Israel, 1944-1964 -- Appendix B. The Growth of the Beit Ya'akov Educational Network in Eretz Israel, 1947-1948 to 1952-1953 -- Appendix C. Flexer, "The Melodious Train" -- Appendix D. Capsule Biographies -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253050847
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Shaʾul, Mikhal, 1978 - Holocaust memory in ultraorthodox society in Israel Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, 2021 ISBN 9780253050816
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253050809
Language:
English
Keywords:
Israel
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Ultraorthodoxes Judentum
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
