Have "many lies accumulated in history books"?

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Title Have "many lies accumulated in history books"? : The Holocaust in Ashkenazi "Haredi" historical consciousness in Israel.
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 29 (2001) 321-375
Description Surveys ultra-Orthodox historiography on the Holocaust and textbooks on this topic (aimed largely at Orthodox womens' educational institutions) written mainly in the 1980s-90s. Focuses on a substantial number of these writings which maintain a complex relationship with academic research on the subject. Orthodox historiography was conceived in part as a counterhistory to "Zionist" historiography
it contrasts the behavior of Orthodox Jews during the Holocaust (heroism, rescue efforts, etc.) with that of Zionist leaders. Many Orthodox texts are remarkable for their ahistorical approach to the Holocaust, but there is a gradual rapprochement taking place of Orthodox historiography with academic research. Focuses on writings by Ruth Lichtenstein, Dina Spiegel, and Esther Farbstein as most typical of recent Orthodox Holocaust historiography. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
See also in Hebrew.
Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
National Library system number 990003294910705171
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באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

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