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Religious Practice during the Holocaust

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Abstract

Nazi Germany’s policies profoundly altered both private and public lives of religious Jews in Germany and then across Europe. Despite targeting Jews as a “race,” anti-Jewish measures forced the Jewish religious leadership to seek new ways to assist their communities. Maintaining Jewish religious practices during the Holocaust became increasingly challenging and eventually impossible for most Jews.

Original languageEnglish GB
Title of host publicationThe Cambridge History of the Holocaust
Subtitle of host publicationVolume III: The Victims and Their Worlds: 1939-1945
PublisherCambridge University Press
Pages147-162
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9781108900447
ISBN (Print)9781108830225
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2025

Keywords

  • Hasidic Jews
  • Jewish law
  • camps
  • communities
  • daily life
  • eastern Europe
  • gender
  • ghettos
  • kosher food
  • rabbis
  • religious institutions
  • religious practices
  • sermons
  • synagogues
  • western Europe
  • yeshivas

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Social Sciences

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