The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars - Alan Rosen

The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars

Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy

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Buch | Hardcover
266 Seiten
2019
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03826-5 (ISBN)
82,30 inkl. MwSt
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.

Alan Rosen is author of The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder, editor of Literature of the Holocaust, and editor (with Steven T. Katz) of Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives. He lectures regularly at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem and other Holocaust study centers.

Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Part I: Time at the End of a Jewish Century


Part II: Tracking Time in the New Jewish Century: Calendars in Wartime Ghettos


Part III: Concentration Camps, Endless Time, and Jewish Time


Part IV: While in Hiding: Calendar Consciousness on the Edge of Destruction


Part V: At the Top of the Page: Calendar Dates in Holocaust Diaries


Part VI: The Holocaust as a Revolution in Jewish Time: The Lubavitcher Rebbes' Wartime Calendar Book


Epilogue





Appendix 1: Inventory of Wartime Jewish Calendars





Appendix 2: Months of the Jewish Calendar Year, with Their Holidays and Fast Days





Appendix 3: English-Language Rendering of Rabbi Scheiner Calendar





Glossary





Selective Bibliography





Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Jewish Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo 16 Halftones, color
Verlagsort Bloomington, IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-253-03826-X / 025303826X
ISBN-13 978-0-253-03826-5 / 9780253038265
Zustand Neuware
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