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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806161103321

Autore

Shaul Michal

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-253-05081-2

0-253-05082-0

Edizione

[Perspectives on Israel Studies.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 381 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Perspectives on Israel studies

Disciplina

296.832095694

Soggetti

Ultra-Orthodox Jews - Israel

Holocaust survivors - Israel

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Religious aspects

Holocaust (Jewish theology)

Memory - Social aspects

Israel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

In Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel, Michal Shaul highlights the special role that Holocaust survivors played as they rebuilt and consolidated Ultraorthodox society.