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Studies on the Religious Life of the Jews in Poland during the Holocaust – Principal Sources and Fundamental Issues

Havi Dreifuss

redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl

(z d. Ben-Sasson) – doktor historii, pracuje w Instytucie Yad Vashem i na Uniwersytecie Hebrajskim w Jerozolimie. Autorka publikacji z zakresu religijności żydowskiej, getta warszawskiego i zagłady Żydów polskich oraz licznych programów edukacyjnych w International School for Holocaust Studies w Instytucie Yad Vashem

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8171-6451

Yad Vashem, Tel Aviv University

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 9 (2013), pages: 48-85

Publication date: 2013-12-01

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.581

Abstract

The article analyzes how Jewish life during the Holocaust is described in orthodox historiography. The author draws attention to the methodological problems of traditional orthodox historical writings on the subject. She also indicates how useful internal rabbinical sources can prove to highlight new aspects of research in this field, especially relating to religious life. Orthodox texts tend to glorify those who diligently observed the rules of religious lifestyle and protected them even during the Holocaust. They also emphasize the great responsibility of rabbis because of the need to teach halacha in circumstances where everything was a matter of life and death. Such sources should be included in research projects, subject to careful critical approach and placing them in a broad context.

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Dreifuss, H. (2013). Studies on the Religious Life of the Jews in Poland during the Holocaust – Principal Sources and Fundamental Issues. Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (9), 48-85. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.581

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No. 9 (2013)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2013-12-01

Dział: Studies