| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 381 pages) : illustrations |
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Perspectives on Israel Studies |
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Perspectives on Israel studies.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Translated from the Hebrew |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2020) |
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews -- Israel
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Holocaust survivors -- Israel
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Religious aspects
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Holocaust (Jewish theology)
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Collective memory -- Israel
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel & Palestine.
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War -- Religious aspects
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Holocaust (Jewish theology)
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Collective memory
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Holocaust survivors
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews
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Israel
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253050823 |
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0253050820 |
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