The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy / Alan Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Alan (Alan Charles), author.

Series:

Jewish literature and culture.

Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Religious calendars--Judaism.

History--Holocaust.

Religion--Judaism--General.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Time--Religious aspects--Judaism--History--20th century.

Religious calendars--Judaism--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 251 pages) : color illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"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."--Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction

Time at the end of a Jewish century

Tracking time in the new Jewish century : calendars in wartime ghettos

Concentration camps, endless time, and Jewish time

While in hiding : calendar consciousness on the edge of destruction

At the top of the page : calendar dates in Holocaust diaries

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253038302

0253038308

9780253038289

0253038286

OCLC:

1091028988