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How did the Ultraorthodox (Haredi) community chart a new path for its future after it lost the core of its future leaders, teachers, and rabbis in the Holocaust? How did the revival of this group come into being in the new Zionist state of Israel?
In Holocaust Memory in Ultraorthodox Society in Israel, Michal Shaul highlights the special role that Holocaust survivors played as they rebuilt and consolidated Ultraorthodox society. Although many Haredi were initially theologically opposed to the creation of Israel, they have become a significant force in the contemporary life and politics of the country. Looking at personal and public experiences of Ultraorthodox survivors in the first years of emigration from liberated Europe and breaking down how their memories entered the public domain, Shaul documents how they were incorporated into the collective memories of the Ultraorthodox in Israel.
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.
Contents
Introduction
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
