(c) www.haaretz.comauf haaretz.com habe ich einen interessanten artikel zu einer konferenz am vergangenen sonntag in jerusalem gefunden, den ich für wert halte, mit euch zu teilen:

die konferenz widmete sich der nach-holocaust literatur der haredim (ultra-religiösen) und wurde als konferenz für frauen organisiert

Indeed, Holocaust education and documentation has become predominantly a women’s occupation in ultra-Orthodox society, as women are the ones who advance it in the educational seminars and colleges.

The database project was initiated by ultra-Orthodox Holocaust researcher Esther Farbstein, director of the Holocaust Education Center at Jerusalem’s Michlala Women’s College in Jerusalem, with the support of the Holocaust Claims Conference.

The delegation of this work to women is typical for Haredi society: the holy book itself is written for the ultra-Orthodox men who must study the Torah, whereas the marginal autobiography of the holy book’s author is left for the women. But Farbstein has managed to turn the writing of the marginal memoir into the main issue. Through her researches, the stories of the rabbis who wrote at this critical time become the source of new historic insights into the Jewish communities before and during the Holocaust, and about the dilemmas troubling the rabbis who went through the era.

mehr zur konferenz, dem umgang mit der shoah in der haredischen community in israel und reaktionen aus der israelischen gesellschaft findet ihr in dem artikel unter: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/819142.html und in der online-diskussion dazu am ende des artikels (wie immer mit der spannendste teil des ganzen)