| Description |
xii, 217 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The Helen and Martin Schwartz lectures in Jewish studies |
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Helen and Martin Schwartz lectures in Jewish studies.
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| Contents |
1. The Jewish Search for a Usable Past -- 2. The Library of Jewish Catastrophe -- 3. Ringelblum's Time Capsules -- 4. The Shtetl in Jewish Collective Memory -- 5. Rabbis, Rebels, and the Lost Art of the Law -- 6. The Golden Peacock: The Art of Song -- 7. A Revolution Set in Stone: The Art of Burial -- 8. A City, a School, and a Utopian Experiment -- 9. Zionism, Israel, and the Search for a Covenantal Space |
| Summary |
David G. Roskies argues here that the past must die before it can be made to live again in the present. Instead of viewing the modern Jewish experience as a series of seismic breaks, he uncovers the many Jewish memory sites that were structured precisely from a prior and profound sense of loss. Taking the reader on a tour of these sites, Roskies explores the symbolic landscape of an Old World shtetl; milk canisters crammed with documents that chronicle the catastrophe of the Warsaw ghetto; a gallery of rabbis and zaddikim who are really rebels in disguise; a repertory of parodic songs; a failed revolution recast into an Honor Row of magnificent tombstones; and a Holy Land where the search for sacred space is led by those least likely ever to find it. The creativity with which Jews have coped with loss and catastrophe in modern times is revealed in this account |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-205) and index |
| Subject |
Jews -- Civilization.
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Jews -- Persecutions.
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Memory -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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| LC no. |
98046951 |
| ISBN |
0253335051 (alk. paper) |
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