History Textbooks of the Ultra-Orthodox Society: The First Generation
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Collective Memory, History Textbooks, Rabbi Dr. Moses Auerbach, Rabbi Meir Scheransky, Haredi Society in IsraelAbstract
One of the tools that are used in order to form the collective memory of societies in the modern era of institutionalized education is history textbooks. Based upon a variety of primary sources, this article discusses two history textbooks for Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) students that appeared in the mid-1940’s. One of them was written by Rabbi Dr. Moses Auerbach and its three parts were published within three years (1944-1947), and the other, written by Rabbi Meir Scheransky, consists of eight parts that were printed over a span of 26 years (1946-1972). Our aim is to set forth the historical, social, and educational circumstances within which these books were written, to present their authors and their motivations for writing them in these contexts, and to trace certain characteristics of their books. By doing so, we uncover several unexplored dimensions of Israeli Haredi society in the mid-20th century.
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