To protect and preserve: echoes of traditional jewish burial culture in the exhumation of Holocaust mass graves in postwar Belarus and Ukraine

As Soviet Jews returned to their hometowns after the Holocaust, they encountered a catastrophic landscape of mass graves that defied Jewish traditions of dignified, secure burial. Throughout the postwar decades, survivors strove to bring their relatives “to a Jewish grave”—in other words, to provide...

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Subtitles:Research Article
Main Author: Garibova, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2020]
In: AJS review
Year: 2020, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-98
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jews / Funeral / Culture / Jews / Mass burials / Exhumation
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
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