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Holocaust's Jewish Calendars

By Alan Rosen

Holocaust's Jewish Calendars Social Sciences

Holocaust's Jewish Calendars

By Alan Rosen

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Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that vast upheaval. Rosen inventories and organizes Jewish calendars according to the wartime settings in which they were produced--from Jewish communities to ghettos and concentration camps. The calendars he considers reorient views of Jewish circumstances during the war and show how Jews were committed to fashioning traditional guides to daily life, even in the most extreme conditions. In a separate chapter, moreover, he elucidates how Holocaust-era diaries sometimes served as surrogate Jewish calendars. All in all, Rosen presents a revised idea of time, continuity, the sacred and the mundane, the ordinary and the extraordinary even when death and destruction were the order of the day. Rosen's focus on the Jewish calendar--the ultimate symbol of continuity, as weekday follows weekday and Sabbath follows Sabbath--sheds new light on how Jews maintained connections to their way of conceiving time even within the cauldron of the Holocaust.
Product details
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2019-02-28
Publication Date:
2019-02-01
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
025303826X
ISBN13:
9780253038265
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
741 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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