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Ghetto
Continued from preceding page
with Huberband's material:
Co editor of Kiddush Hashem
is Rabbi Robert Hirt, vice
president for administration
and professional education at
Yeshiva University's affili-
ated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary and
director of the University's
Holocaust Studies Program.
Hirt points out that Huber-
band, a religious Jew and a
rabbi, played the role of an ob-
jective observer. He worked
with secular Jews and made
himself acceptable to others
in his role as archivist.
Dr. Lucjan Dobroszycki,
professor of Holocaust
studies at Yeshiva University,
senior research associate at
the YIVO Jewish Institute
for Social Research in New
York, and editor of The
Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto:
1941 1944, refers to the
significance of Huberband's
contemporary account. There
is a vast difference, he says,
between accounts written by
survivors several decades
after the events and accounts
written by individuals during
the Holocaust.
Moreover, Dobroszycki
says that while at that time,
the majority of Jews in
Eastern Europe were obser-
vant, very little is known
about how Orthodox Jews in
the Warsaw Ghetto tried to
maintain their traditional
way of life. According to
Dobroszycki, Huberband pro-
vides the answer, and a real
insight into that community,
because he records how Jews
in the ghetto organized min-
yanim (prayer groups) and
shechitah (ritual slaughter),
how they tried to celebrate
holidays, and numerous other
details of - traditional, reli-
gious life.
Since completing his edit-
ing of Kiddush Hashem,
Gurock has gone on to other
projects. He wrote The Men
and Women of Yeshiva, in
celebration of Yeshiva Univer-
sity's centennial anniversary,
which will be published by
Columbia University Press.
He is now planning his next
project, a book on American
Jewry from the Suez Canal
crisis to the Six Day War,
1956 to 1967.
As for Kiddush Hashem, as
well as subsequent books in
the Heritage Series, Gurock
hopes that they will go be-
yond describing the destruc-
tion of European Jewry to il-
luminating the spiritual life
of Jews caught in the
Holocaust. ❑
Rhonda Cohen is a writer in
New York City.
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