Holocaust's Jewish Calendars (eBook)

Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy

Alan Rosen (Autor)

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2019
271 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03828-9 (ISBN)

Infos

';The most comprehensive to date treatment of these precious artifacts of the Holocaust's Jewish efforts to maintain religious observations and identity.' Choice 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 producedfrom 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 calendarthe ultimate symbol of continuity, as weekday follows weekday and Sabbath follows Sabbathsheds new light on how Jews maintained connections to their way of conceiving time even within the cauldron of the Holocaust. ';Rosen demonstrates the relationship between time and meaning, between meaning and holiness, between holy days and the divine presenceall of which came under assault in the Nazis' effort to kill Jewish souls before destroying Jewish bodies.' David Patterson, author of Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Jewish Literature and Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 16 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: Alan Rosen • annual cycle • Auschwitz • calendar • calendar consciousness • calendar dates • Camps • clock • concentration camps • days • Eastern Europe • edge of destruction • endless time • end of the Jewish Century • fast days • Germany • Ghetto • Hidden • Hiding • Holidays • Holocaust • Holocaust diaries • Holocaust-era • Holocaust-era Ghettos • Holocaust journals • holy days • Indiana University Press • Invasion • IUP • IU Press • Jewish time • Keeping Time Sacred • Lodz • Making Time Holy • marking time • months • months of the Jewish calendar • new Jewish Century • Poland • Rabbi Scheiner Calendar • religious calendar • religious year • revolution in Jewish Time • Sabbath • Shabbat • The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars • Time • timekeeping • top of the page • tracking time • Warsaw • wartime calendars • wartime Jewish calendars • weekday • Weekend • Weekly • while in hiding • WWII • yearly cycle • years
• ISBN-10: 0-253-03828-6 / 0253038286
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03828-9 / 9780253038289