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Author Shaul, Michal, author.

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

Publication Info. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 381 pages) : illustrations
Series Perspectives on Israel Studies
Perspectives on Israel studies.
Note Translated from the Hebrew.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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
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.
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Subject 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.
Collective memory -- Israel.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- Israel & Palestine.
War -- Religious aspects
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Collective memory
Holocaust survivors
Memory -- Social aspects
Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Israel https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdgWx83Xb7cjjrMXBJYyd
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vB9Pg8WWKGbgjvXPmfy
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Added Title Peʼer taḥat efer. English
Other Form: Print version: Shaul, Michael Peʼer taḥat efer. English Holocaust memory in Ultraorthodox society in Israel Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020] 9780253050809 (DLC) 2021279241 (OCoLC)1129099066
ISBN 9780253050823 electronic book
0253050820 electronic book
0253050804 hardcover
9780253050809 hardcover
0253050812 paperback
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