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Book SynopsisIn Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel, Michal Shaul highlights the special role that Holocaust survivors played as they rebuilt and consolidated Ultraorthodox society.
Trade ReviewOne of the book's great strengths is substantial quotation of those individuals dedic ted to rebuilding the prewar European Torah world. From their stirring words we are able to gl an the passion that was necessary to go forward in the wake of numbing losses.
-- Alan Rosen - Jerusalem, Israel
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part 1. Formative Memory
1. The Ultraorthodox and the Holocaust: Catastrophe, Rupture, and Challenges
2. The Paths and Circles of Reconstruction
Part 2. Memory as Torture, Memory as Obligation
3. Why Did We Survive?
4. Starting New Families
Part 3. Memory as a Mobilizing Force
5. The Restoration of the Torah World
6. Du lebst mama [You live, Mother!]: Female Survivors and the Rebirth of an Educational Network
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 4. Counter-Memory and Shared Memory
9. 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, 1947/8–1952/3
Appendix C. "The Melodious Train (on the History of the Melody of Ani Ma'amin)," from M. S. Geshuri, Neginah e-asidut be-vet uzmir
Appendix D. Capsule Biographies
Bibliography
Index
