Badania nad życiem religijnym Żydów w Polsce podczas Zagłady – główne źródła i podstawowe zagadnienia
Studies on the Religious Life of the Jews in Poland during the Holocaust – Principal Sources and Fundamental Issues

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes how Jewish life during the Holocaust is described in orthodox historiography. The author draws attention to the methodological problems of traditional orthodox historical writings on the subject. She also indicates how useful internal rabbinical sources can prove to highlight new aspects of research in this field, especially relating to religious life. Orthodox texts tend to glorify those who diligently observed the rules of religious lifestyle and protected them even during the Holocaust. They also emphasize the great responsibility of rabbis because of the need to teach halacha in circumstances where everything was a matter of life and death. Such sources should be included in research projects, subject to careful critical approach and placing them in a broad context.

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