Brundibar in Terezin: Music as Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust

Author(s):  
Jennifer Blackwell
Author(s):  
Мария Витальевна Гилева

В статье анализируется эволюция представлений о понятии еврейского сопротивления Холокосту в американской историографии - от понятия исключительно вооружённого восстания, единственно признаваемой формы в 1960-70-е гг., до духовного сопротивления, ставшего предметом более детального изучения с начала 1980-х гг. Рассматриваются социокультурный контекст осмысления этой проблемы в США, а также позиции ключевых американских исследователей по интерпретации проблемы еврейского сопротивления, в том числе его значения. Делается вывод о специфике отражения еврейского сопротивления в американской историографии XX в., основывающейся как на личных взглядах исследователей, так и особенностях источниковой базы и развития исторической науки в США, что в конечном счёте повлияло на восприятие проблематики Холокоста в целом. The article analyzes the evolution of the concept of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust representation in American historiography - from the concept of an exclusively armed uprising, the only recognized form in the 1960s and 1970s, to spiritual resistance, which has become the subject of more detailed study since the early 1980s. The socio-cultural context of understanding this problem in the United States, as well as the positions of key American researchers on the interpretation of the problem of Jewish resistance, including its meaning, are considered. A conclusion is made about the specifics of the Jewish resistance reflection in the American historiography in the 20th century, based on both personal views of the researchers, the peculiarities of the source base and development of historical science in the United States, which ultimately influenced the perception of the Holocaust issue as a whole.


1995 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-400
Author(s):  
Ralph Melnick

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Gitl Eisner ◽  
Gretta Hunstiger ◽  
Dennis Peters ◽  
Stuart Janis ◽  
Marty Lewis-Hunstiger

Telling the stories of people who risked their lives to save victims of the Holocaust through music is the focus of a project called The Garden of the Righteous. This project was introduced in a recent article in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, called “Righteous Among the Nations: Music Without Borders” (Eisner et al., 2019). This piece provides an update on the evolution of the project during a time of pandemics.


Author(s):  
Eliyana R. Adler

This chapter analyzes the way wartime experiences were reflected in the songs of Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust by fleeing to the Soviet Union. It introduces both the contours of the controversy and the broad outlines of what the Polish Jews went through during the war years. It also looks into the research about partisans and ghetto fighters that far outweighs their significance and their percentage of the Jewish population in Europe. The chapter investigates the hegemony of armed resistance by introducing the idea of “spiritual resistance,” which encompassed explicitly religious and other actions that raised the human spirit in the face of the Nazi effort to destroy it. It identifies singing as one of the many phenomena to describe spiritual resistance, which is considered an act that could have no possible effect on the war and yet allowed its victims to find the strength to continue living.


2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-325
Author(s):  
Michael A Grodin ◽  
Johnathan I Kelly ◽  
Erin L Miller ◽  
Robert Kirschner ◽  
Joseph Polak

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-243
Author(s):  
Rachel Feldhay Brenner

Abstract Jerzy Andrzejewski wrote the novella Holy Week at the time of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This real-time Polish fictional response immediately raised critical controversy. Whereas some critics saw it as an inadequate representation of the Holocaust, others considered the 1945 version a product of socialist realism. Here the author argues that Andrzejewski’s wartime fiction investigates the viability of his Catholic existentialist orientation during a time of terror. While his wartime essays and his correspondence with Czesław Miłosz reflected Andrzejewski’s struggle to maintain his faith in human brotherhood, his fiction traced the disintegration of Grace-given faith in the commonality and dignity of all human beings. The stories progress from a tragic ending of friendship to the failure of spiritual resistance and ultimately to the complete moral collapse of the Polish community. The unflinching depiction of the failure of Catholic Poles before their responsibility to extend neighborly love to their doomed Jewish neighbors communicates Andrzejewski’s insistence on the Catholic obligation to love one’s neighbor.


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