Language:
English
Year of publication:
1969
Titel der Quelle:
YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science
Angaben zur Quelle:
14 (1969) 159-195
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish ghettos Intellectual life
;
Jewish ghettos History 20th century
Abstract:
Traces the fate of the main Jewish institutions in various Polish and Lithuanian ghettos before the deportations. In all the ghettos (except Warsaw), the Judenrat was the authority which regulated these institutions. The Nazi authorities deliberately set out to undermine Jewish religious life (e.g. forcing the Jews to work on Sabbath and holidays), and they used the Judenräte as their tools for implementation. Secondary and higher education were suppressed in the ghettos, as they were in all of Poland for the non-German population. Such establishments were compelled to operate clandestinely or disguised as other institutions. Those cultural institutions which operated - e.g. libraries, archives and theaters - did so, in many cases, because the Nazis were interested in maintaining an illusion of the durability of the ghetto. Thus, they continued with their activities without much hindrance from the authorities.
Note:
Appeared also in "Studies in Modern Jewish Social History" (1972) 425-461, and in "East European Jews in Two Worlds" (1990).
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