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The State of Jewish Memory in York and Winchester
Author(s): Griffiths, Toni
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Culture and Heritage, Jewish Heritage, Jewish History, Memory
Abstract: This article examines Pierre Nora’s concept of memory using the examples of York and Winchester to demonstrate the individuality of local approaches to the memory of medieval Anglo-Jewries. Overall, this paper will highlight how memory can be rescued from a period of prolonged silence and reintegrated back into a wider historical narrative. Conversely it will also examine how in stark contrast to this new attitude of remembering the silence surrounding Jewish memory continues to exist elsewhere. Finally this paper will ask why this silence remains, and question whether Nora’s theory that memory is constantly evolving is applicable to the experiences of Jewish memory in York and Winchester
Minhag Anglia: The Transition of Modern Orthodox Judaism in Britain
Author(s): Freud-Kandel, Miri
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Other, Orthodox Judaism, Religious Observance and Practice, Religious Denominations, Jewish Law
Abstract: In certain respects the mainstream Orthodox Jewish community in Britain, fully engaged and integrated into British life, appears to offer an exemplar of a Modern Orthodox Judaism. However the term minhag Anglia may be used to capture the nature of the often unsystematic blending of Jewishness and Britishness that can characterise Anglo-Jewish practice. This paper considers whether the broadly unthinking nature of minhag Anglia precludes its ability to function as a strategy for Modern Orthodox Judaism.
The Holocaust and the Jewish Identity in Slovakia
Author(s): Salner, Peter
Date: 2010
Topics: Holocaust, Religious Belief, Interviews, Memory, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial
Abstract: This study deals with the impacts of the Holocaust on the identity of the Jewish community in Slovakia. The author is interested in the question (whether and) in which form God remained among the survivors after Auschwitz. The available ethnological material has shown that suffering during the Holocaust often resulted into abandoning the religion, and particularly in Judaism. Many survivors broke up their contacts with Jewry. They often decided to join the communist party (either due to their conviction or opportunism.) Our research has indicated that for the majority of the Slovak Jews, God after the Holocaust is rather an abstract concept or non existing. However, he is definitely not the biblical God of the Tora and micvot, to which our ancestors used to pray.