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Holocaust memory in Ultraorthodox society in Israel / Michal Shaul ; translated by Lenn J. Schramm and Gail Wald.

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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.

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Main Author: Shaul, Michal (Author)
Other title:Peʼer taḥat efer. English
Format: eBook
Language:English
Hebrew
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Series:Perspectives on Israel studies.
Subjects:
Ultra-Orthodox Jews > Israel.
Holocaust survivors > Israel.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives > History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Religious aspects.
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Memory > Social aspects.
Holocaust survivors
Memory > Social aspects
Ultra-Orthodox Jews
War > Religious aspects
Israel
1939-1945
Table of 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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