Language:
French
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Yod; revue des études hébraïques et juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
9 (2003-2004) 207-229
Keywords:
Senesh, Hannah,
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Jewish women in the Holocaust
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Foreign public opinion, Eretz Israel
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Myth Religious aspects
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Judaism
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Eretz Israel History 1917-1948, British Mandate period
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Eretz Israel Aliyah
Abstract:
Examines the private "hidden side" of the diary of Hanna Szenes, which she kept from her youth in Budapest until 1944, when she returned from Palestine to Hungary with the mission of organizing armed Jewish resistance. The diary testifies to the struggle of a Jewish adolescent to forge an identity for herself in an atmosphere of growing fascism and antisemitism in pre-World War II Hungary. From the moment she expresses her Zionist commitment, she writes for "history" and no longer for herself, her ambition being to find a goal in life and play a part in history. Emigration to Palestine in 1939, however, did not dissipate her hesitations. Her decision to engage in armed battle was a response to the disappoinment she felt about life on a kibbutz, where her uniqueness and dreams were drowned in the performance of everyday chores.
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