The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars: Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy

by Alan Rosen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253038278
• ISBN13: 9780253038272
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"