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Over the past fifty years, images of women have been disappearing from ultra-Orthodox and eventually Orthodox publications. Despite their communities' restrictions on internet usage among their followers, ultra-Orthodox women continue to be presented publicly on the internet at the same time that women's images and identities in ultra-Orthodox communities have been subject to erasure. The public personas of these women as they appear online navigate their community standards of modesty, rabbinical authority, and their gendered religious identities.
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Articles and Book Reviews by Helene Sinnreich
Over the past fifty years, images of women have been disappearing from ultra-Orthodox and eventually Orthodox publications. Despite their communities' restrictions on internet usage among their followers, ultra-Orthodox women continue to be presented publicly on the internet at the same time that women's images and identities in ultra-Orthodox communities have been subject to erasure. The public personas of these women as they appear online navigate their community standards of modesty, rabbinical authority, and their gendered religious identities.
Over the past fifty years, images of women have been disappearing from ultra-Orthodox and eventually Orthodox publications. Despite their communities' restrictions on internet usage among their followers, ultra-Orthodox women continue to be presented publicly on the internet at the same time that women's images and identities in ultra-Orthodox communities have been subject to erasure. The public personas of these women as they appear online navigate their community standards of modesty, rabbinical authority, and their gendered religious identities.
During World War II, the Germans put the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland into ghettos which restricted their movement and, most crucially for their survival, access to food. The Germans saw the Jews as ‘useless eaters,’ and denied them sufficient food for survival. Jews had no control over Nazi food policy but they attempted to survive the deadly conditions of Nazi ghettoization through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies.
The hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos. In this book, Helene Sinnreich explores their story, drawing from diaries and first-hand accounts of the victims and survivors.
Published as an open access book.
Chapters:
1The Nazi Invasion: Violence, Displacement, and Expropriation
2 Jewish Leadership
3 The Supply and Distribution of Food: Strategies and Priorities
4 The Physical, Mental, and Social Effects of Hunger
5 Hunger and Everyday Life in the Ghetto
6 Socioeconomic Status and Food Access
7 Relief Systems and Charity
8 Illicit Food Access: Smuggling, Theft, and the Black Market
9 Labor and Food in the Ghettos
10 Deportations and the End of the Ghettos