Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
בשביל הזיכרון
Angaben zur Quelle:
ס.ח. 2 (תשסט) 2-9
Keywords:
קפלן, חיים אהרן,
;
דריפוס, לוסיאן
;
קלמפרר, ויקטור,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Jews Identity
Abstract:
Discusses the views of three Holocaust victims, based on entries in their diaries. Chaim Aron Kaplan, born in 1880 in Belarus, wrote his "Megillat yissurin" ("Scroll of Suffering") in the Warsaw ghetto. A Zionist who emphasized the role of history in Jewish culture, he wrote his diary in Hebrew for future historians, but lost his belief in God and feared that his diary may serve no purpose if the entire Jewish nation is annihilated. He was killed in Treblinka in 1942. Lucien Dreyfus, born in 1882 in Alsace, was a Zionist and a French nationalist. During the war he came to believe that European society was immoral, bereft of religion; he identified solely as a Jew and believed in Divine justice. He was killed in Auschwitz in 1943. Unlike Kaplan and Dreyfus, who stressed the importance of Jewish identity, Victor Klemperer, born in 1881 in Landsberg, remained an assimilationist. Although he had converted to Christianity, he lost his position at Dresden University in 1935, most of his "Aryan" friends left him, and he was taken for forced labor; however, he continued to believe in the integrity of Germany. He died in Dresden in 1960.
Note:
באנגלית:
,
"Legacy" (Jerusalem) 2 (2010) 24-31
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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