Rabbi Josef Lejb Gelernter from Skępe and his Traces in the Ringelblum Archive
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 15 (2019), Pages: 355-370
Submission Date: 2020-09-07Publication Date: 2019-12-20

Abstract
This text consists of two parts. The ϐirst one presents Rabbi Josef Lejb Gelernter’s biography. Gelernter had been a rabbi in Skępe since 1931, after which he was in the Warsaw ghetto, where he became engaged in the organization of social welfare for Orthodox refugees and DPs. The second part contains three primary sources: a testimony about the expulsion of Jews
from Skępne in 1939 and the special role Gelernter played in his community; Gelernter’s report on the issue of kosherness among refugees in the Warsaw ghetto, and an appeal attributed to him which regards the neglect of burial customs in the Jewish district.
Keywords
Holocaust , Warsaw ghetto , religious life , rabbi , kosherness , social welfare
References
Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, t. 1: Listy o Zagładzie, oprac. Ruta Sakowska, Warszawa: Ż IH, 2017.
Google Scholar
Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, t. 8: Tereny wcielone do
Google Scholar
Rzeszy: Okręg Rzeszy Gdańsk-Prusy Zachodnie, rejencja ciechanowska, Górny Śląsk, oprac. Magdalena Siek, Warszawa: Ż IH i WUW, 2012.
Google Scholar
Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, t. 27: Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna w Warszawie (1939–1943), oprac. Aleksandra Bańkowska, Maria Ferenc Piotrowska, Warszawa: Ż IH, 2017.
Google Scholar
Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, t. 29: Pisma Emanuela Ringelbluma, oprac. Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov, Warszawa: Ż IH, 2018.
Google Scholar
Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, t. 32: Pisma rabina Szymona Huberbanda, oprac. Anna Ciałowicz, Warszawa: Ż IH, 2017.
Google Scholar
Archiwum Ringelbluma. Konspiracyjne Archiwum Getta Warszawy, t. 33: Getto warszawskie, cz. 1, oprac. Katarzyna Person, Tadeusz Epsztein, Warszawa: Ż IH, 2016.
Google Scholar
Dreifuss Havi, “The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!”: Orthodox Behavior and Leadership in Warsaw during the Holocaust [w:]
Google Scholar
Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis. Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Professor Antony Polonsky, red. Glenn Dynner, Francois Guesnet, Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2015.
Google Scholar
Engelking Barbara, Leociak Jacek, Getto warszawskie. Przewodnik po nieistniejącym mieście, wyd. 2, Warszawa: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów, 2013.
Google Scholar
Kassow Samuel D., Kto napisze naszą historię? Ukryte Archiwum Emanuela Ringelbluma, tłum. Grażyna Waluga, Olga Zienkiewicz, Warszawa: ŻIH, 2017.
Google Scholar
License
Copyright (c) 2019 Author&"Holocaust Studies and Materials"

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The journal is published under the Diamond Open Access Standard, CC-BY-4.0 Deed - Attribution 4.0 International - Creative Commons
Most read articles by the same author(s)
- Maria Ferenc, “Where is the Blessed Source, from Which He Drew his Power…” Memory of Mordechaj Anielewicz in Poland During 1943–1949 , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 18 (2022)
- Maria Ferenc, Aleksandra Bańkowska, “Could there be any moral compensation for the obliteration of all traces of a thousand years of Jewish existence in Poland?” Unknown writings by Emanuel Ringelblum from 1943 , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 20 (2024)
- Maria Ferenc, Empathy and Its Limits, red. Aleida Assmann, Ines Detmers, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 219 s. , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 15 (2019)
- Maria Ferenc, Rebeca Clifford, Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 19 (2023)
- Maria Ferenc, “Understandably, we are staying put.” He-Chalutz activists faced with the prospect of escaping from occupied Poland , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 19 (2023)
Similar Articles
- Jacek Leociak, Understanding the Holocaust. A Task for Generations , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: 2008: Holocaust Studies and Materials
- Jacek Leociak, Anniversaries of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in public discourse (with special reference to the years 1943–1944, 1968 and 2023) , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 19 (2023)
- Dariusz Libionka, Adam Kopciowski, The Life and the Holocaust in Hrubieszów in the Eyes of a Young Woman from Warsaw , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 3 (2007)
- Sylweriusz B. Królak, Strolling in the Ghetto. Experience of the Space of the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettoes from a Pedestrian’s Perspective , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 16 (2020)
- Jacek Leociak, Marta Tomczok, Affective Holocaust Kitsch – Introduction , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 17 (2021)
- Gabriel Finder, Bernard Mark, the Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, and Jürgen Stroop’s Trial , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 13 (2017)
- Dan Michman, Dutch Society and the Jewish Fate: A Puzzling Record , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 12 (2016)
- Esther Farbstein, Yeshiva Students as Refugees in the Soviet Union , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 18 (2022)
- Stephan Lehnstaedt, German Occupants in Warsaw and the Publicness of the Holocaust , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 12 (2016)
- Aleksandra Bańkowska, Between responsibility and powerlessness, generosity and temptation. Social care workers in the Warsaw ghetto in the face of their charges and petitioners , Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały: No. 20 (2024)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 > >>
You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.